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...After an anthem sung by the Choral Society, Mrs. Wilma A. Kerby-Miller, Dean of Instruction, extended the greetings of the administration to the assembled student body, and especially to the 313 members of the Class of 1962, Radcliffe's largest freshman class ever. Three students have also been admitted as sophomores in Radcliffe's first year of the advanced standing program...
...speech's end De Gaulle broke into the Marseillaise, and the crowd took up the anthem. Then, apparently troubled by his lack of contact with the audience, De Gaulle descended from the platform. To the consternation of the police protecting him, the general, lost without his glasses, lunged past barriers, mingled with the crowd, smiling and shaking hands. As the crowd headed home, stone-hurling Communists, shouting "Fascism Shall Not Pass," clashed with club-wielding police. Red-bereted ex-paratroopers, spoiling for a fight with the Reds who had helped spoil the Gaullist show, joined in. Angered...
...magic of metamorphosis: he is continually changing the Wart into some animal or other. As a fish, the Wart learns self-preservation from a pike; as a hawk, he acquires courage. He gets a taste of the 20th century totalitarian state by spending time in an ant colony, whose anthem is Antland, Antland Over All. Almost by accident, he comes across Excalibur...
...Nationalist followers, among whom divorce is shameful. At his death, Strijdom had not cut all ties with Britain (there are economic advantages in staying in the Commonwealth), but the Union Jack is no longer flown, and God Save the Queen is no longer South Africa's anthem. In his honor South Africa's state radio played solemn music and the official anthem, Die Stem van Suid Afrika (The Voice of South Africa...
...Minnelli's direction, is Pall Mall. Comedienne Kendall cocks an eyebrow clear up into her hairline, twists her mouth into something resembling a berserk rubber band, fixes her rival with a saccharine smile that fairly oozes gore. Actor Harrison, whether falling asleep on his feet during the national anthem or grunting amorously to a sofa pillow, still reigns as king of his wacky parlor empire, but an enormously talented queen has moved in close to his side...