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...Butter-nut Coffee, which is packed there. After the orchestra swung through Freberg's lighthearted, tuneful spoof of Oklahoma!-type musicals, even skeptics who had come to hoot remained to hum. The mayor is recommending the adoption of the rollicking Whatta They Got in Omaha? as the civic anthem, Capitol Records has put out a recording with I Look in Your Face and I See Omaha on the flip side. More important, from Freberg's point of view, Omaha! has already sold a tremendous lot of Butter-nut Coffee...
...city registrar makes a speech, ringing with fine phrases-"class struggle," "power of the party," "workers' glory and honor." The bridal couple pledge themselves to faithful service of "the workers' and peasants' might," everyone sings the East German national anthem, and children recite "socialistic poems." Fellow workers hand over their presents, bride and groom are showered with flowers, the orchestra plays the Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana, and it's all over...
While sounding out a bill to establish an official version of the larynx-bursting national anthem, a House Judiciary subcommittee listened to an expert on the subject: "Star-Spangled Soprano" Lucy Monroe, who has sung the anthem some 5,000 times (by her count) at World Series games, conventions and other public gatherings. Her recommendation: lower a few of the top notes, maybe, but "I feel strongly the basic melody should not be altered...
...Shower of Glass. The spitting began as the Nixons walked along the troop-lined red carpet toward their limousines. The band made a futile attempt to quiet the crowd by playing the Venezuelan national anthem; Pat Nixon shamed a hooting, teen-aged girl into silence by reaching over the guards' bayonets to take her hand. As the Nixons got into separate cars for the ten-mile superhighway trip up the coastal range to the capital, demonstrators tried to blind the drivers by draping banners over the windshields. Only when the mob was left behind...
...bugles sounded, cymbals crashed, whistles trilled. The massed students beat their kitchenware and advanced, as Radio Peking recounted, singing a rousing, revolutionary anthem: "Arise, arise, Oh millions with one heart; braving the enemy's fire, march...