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...ceremonies began in steamy 90° sunshine with a religious service on the steps beneath Lincoln's massive statue. Some 25,000 people filled the calm and lovely setting below the steps and around the Reflecting Pool. Pat Boone sang the national anthem, Frank Borman gave a prayer, Kate Smith sang God Bless America. The speaker was Billy Graham, who called the nation to God and pleaded that it "stop the polarization before it is too late." At appropriate moments, or just for the fun of it, the children in the crowd waved their flags...
Besides broadcasting the Maoist unofficial anthem ("The East is Red, the sun rises, Mao Tse-tung comes out in the East . . ."), the latest satellite was roughly twice the size of the earliest 1957-vintage Russian Sputnik 1. Its launching demonstrated that China has joined the ranks of the U.S., the Soviet Union, France and Japan in developing both rocketry and electronic gear capable of such a feat...
...blacks were hanging on, suffocating, passing out. I began crying. It threw me into a whole new psychic pattern. It became a commitment for life." He also became adept at a kind of psychological warfare with the dominant whites. He discovered that when black demonstrators broke into the national anthem, puzzled cops stopped and took oft their hats; when blacks knelt in prayer, no one attacked them...
Undeterred by an unseasonal dusting of snow, Emperor Hirohito and several other members of the imperial family trooped into their private box last week as the strains of Kimi-ga-yo, Japan's national anthem, wafted over the Senri Hills near Osaka. While multicolored flags and paper cranes swirled about them in the brisk breezes, cannons boomed a five-gun salute and a 100-piece orchestra blared Fanfare of the 21st Century, a piece specially written by composer Masaru Sato. Then two giant robots clanked into Festival Plaza, disgorging 110 members of a children's band who launched...
Child's Play. "We were talking," sing the Beatles, "about the space between us all," an anthem that might stand as a succinct statement of Antonioni's major obsession. But here, that space has become a void...