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...Egyptian port of Alexandria, a band struck up the national anthem, and Egypt's flag was hoisted to the mast of a spick & span ocean liner, the 15,000-ton Gumhuriyat Misr ("Republic of Egypt"). There to welcome the British-built vessel, along with her sister ship Mecca, to the Egyptian merchant fleet was President Mohammed Naguib. Gesturing to a dark and dapper man in a checked tropical worsted suit and red tarboosh, Naguib paid Egypt's thanks to Ahmed Abboud, "that great and capable man who has rendered so many services to his country in the economic...
...first brick broke a government window, then a cascade of sticks and stones began bounding off walls, streets and skulls. Two truckloads of Soviet infantrymen, sitting impassively facing each other on benches, were hit by thrown stones. None even turned his head. Thousands began chanting the forbidden anthem...
...cheer for the tall, ruddy general on the palace balcony. Liberals saw the hope of an end to Laureano's hinterlands slaughter. At Ospina's house, when the news came, drinks flowed and guests gathered, and the greeting they all used was a quotation from the national anthem: "The horrible night is over...
Last week's communal wingding was staged solely to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the introduction to Tehuantepec of La Sandunga, originally a Spanish fandango. Because the song is now the town's own anthem, the occasion was marked with fitting energy. Through the first night the townspeople, bearing pinewood torches, paraded, fired Roman candles and danced. Next morning, with hardly more than a pause for some fiery 120-proof mescal (drunk with powdered cactus-worm salt for additional flavor), a new parade started...
Homage. The Queen sat motionless, her twin scepters held upright, her brown tresses peeping out from the rim of the lustrous Crown. From the choir rose the anthem, Be Strong and of Good Courage, and Elizabeth II, escorted by her nobles, moved to the high throne...