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...federal, social-security-type pension plan to guarantee Quebec's participation. He conceives of a flag that all Canadians can salute as one more plank in the program, and for good measure, he hopes to substitute O Canada for God Save the Queen as the national anthem...
...CORE people continued to yell, and Secret Servicemen stirred uneasily. Johnson cut the ribbon, then stood straight and unsmiling while a Marine band played the national anthem. Secret Service Chief James Rowley removed his hat-but he held it with his left hand and kept his right ominously in his coat pocket. Under Secretary of State Averell Harriman was so unnerved by the disturbance that he forgot to take off his hat until the final few bars of the anthem were played. "This is certainly disgraceful," muttered Harriman. Later, when the President was asked what his reaction...
...something that belongs in a salad. Actually, they are an autonomous British protectorate in the middle of the Indian Ocean, consisting of some 2,000 palm-shaded coral islands and reefs, 215 of them inhabited, and they are not quite real. Auld Lang Syne used to be the national anthem,*the Mother Hubbard is the prescribed dress for women, and the primary means of transportation are outriggers and baggalas, which resemble a cross between a Chinese junk and a Spanish galleon. Crime in the Maldives (rhymes with bald wives) is virtually unknown, and once a year most of the islands...
...damp green, blue and yellow Brazilian flag over the fourth chair. "We are wet and dirty but not ashamed," said one dramatically. "The Communists threatened our right to carry this beautiful flag. Now we are fighting for our liberty." The man at the piano struck up the national anthem; all joined...
...General Sheridan's horse or a human-finger necklace. You fail to mention the fact that the most prominent single exhibit in the new Museum of History and Technology is the Fort McHenry flag which stimulated Francis S. Key to the composition of what became the national anthem...