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...Brushed aside God Save the Queen as South Africa's national anthem in favor of Die Stem van Suid Afrika (The Voice of South Africa), a thundering Afrikaner hymn...
...black Mercedes-Benz convertible, long and lethal-looking, pulled to a screeching halt before the Lebanese presidential palace in Beirut. A Lebanon honor guard snapped to attention and a military band blared forth the Syrian national anthem. Security men swarmed about the car. Then, from behind the bulletproof glass of the car door stepped a dapper little man with the look of a morose mouse...
...This dusty old dust is a-gettin' my home, I've got to be moving along." The other songs were "I'm Gonna Put My Name Down" (for the Stockholm appeal), We Shall Not Be Moved, Joe Hill (labor songs), Goodnight Irene (which was hummed), and the Negro National Anthem...
...cooking class working on crêpes Suzette tossed their delicate flapjacks into the air and raced for the hall. Several teachers marched their classes to the assembly hall, conducting hasty rehearsals of the national anthem on the way. A nun assigned to unlock the main chapel door was so rattled that she could do nothing but rattle the key in the lock. The royal party passed her by and filed through another door. "How beautiful," said one of them, "are the angels here...
Full of Beans. For Mossadegh, it was a hero's welcome. The crowd broke uncertainly into the new Iranian Oil Anthem: "Happiness dawned in the east, sorrow came to an end." Refrain: "The year had not elapsed before oil was nationalized. Home of lions-Iran! Iran!" It took Mossadegh's green 1950 DeSoto a full hour to make its way through the crowds to the Shah's Palace four miles away. One ragged, tearful old man trying to show his devotion by sacrificing himself under the car wheels was snatched away by the police...