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...Squanto, the Indian who acted as interpreter for the Pilgrim Fathers in Massachusetts, had learned some of his English in Newfoundland. *Since 1869 a song with the defiant punch line "Come near at your peril, Canadian wolf!" had become an unofficial national anthem of Newfoundland...
...question & answer column, the Paris newspaper France Soir was asked: "Would you tell me what the American national anthem is and by whom composed and at what epoch?" The paper's answer: "The American national anthem was composed at the end of the last century, by John Philip Sousa . . . was called The Stars and Stripes Forever...
...flags of the nations were paraded around the brick-red track. Seven Finnish naval cadets, handsome in blue uniforms and white caps, lowered the Olympic flag. On its high tower, the Olympic torch flared brightly for a moment, then went out. while the crowd sang the Finnish national anthem, the electric Scoreboard hopefully flashed in Latin the Olympic motto: "Faster, higher, stronger." If no general war intervened, the world's athletes would assemble again at Melbourne, Australia, for the XVI Olympiad...
...delegates seemed impatient with the time-honored ritual-the prayer, the singing of the national anthem, the welcoming speeches, and the chair's plea, repeated like an incantation, to clear the aisles. Gabrielson delivered his opening speech, his eyes glued to a gadget on the speaker's stand known as the teleprompter (which spells out a prepared speech line for line on a moving band). Said he, in a political cliche with a hard core of truth: "The fate of the world is in the hands of these delegates...
...this time, all that remained before the ceremony's end was a shaky rendition of the National Anthem. The parade marched off the baseball field and back down Garden street, and the spectators dispersed. Above the noise could be heard "Freedom of speech...freedom of opinion...