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Last week, son Talal, now King of Jordan, climbed down from a plane at Riyadh, Saudi Arabia's seat of government, and a faltering old man hobbled over to embrace him. The old man was Ibn Saud. A military band boomed out the Jordanian national anthem and 21 guns cracked a salute. Hashemite and hated enemy had got together. That evening, 71-year-old Ibn Saud, father of more than 30 living sons, gave one of the most magnificent dinners of his life. Afterward, the one-eyed old lion of the desert and the gloomy, unstable King of Jordan...
...laying of the cornerstone three quarters of a century ago, was a ceremony complete with the presence of the Governor and the National Lancers of Massachusetts. Oliver Wendell Holmes dedicated a new poem to the infant hall, which the crowd sang to the tune of the Russian National Anthem of St. Petersburg. In its description of the scene, the Boston Advertiser wrote rapturously of "Sanders Theatre, of wondrous size, with ambulatory, vomitorium and proscenium not unlike those of classical antiquity...
Last week, Poet Sergei Mikhalkov (coauthor of the Soviet national anthem) lyrically followed up Stalin's announcement of an atom bomb explosion by writing a new soldiers' marching song...
...definitely a non-Zionist-a stand which looked to Zionists like anti-Zionism. At least one large contributor to the seminary tore up his usual check. Some of the faculty deeply resented Finkelstein's attitude, and when he refused to let the students sing the Israel national anthem at commencement in 1945, on the ground that a political song has no place at a religious ceremony, the seminary nearly split apart...
...London's sooty, bustling Paddington station one morning last week, travelers paused in their rush to catch holiday trains, trainmen and porters put down the tools of their trade, and all together, as fellow subjects of Britain's King George VI, sang the words of their national anthem. All over Britain, in churches of every denomination, others were singing the hymn's familiar words with special solemnity. "When we sing 'Send him victorious,' " said Canon Adam Fox to a hushed congregation in Westminster Abbey, "we mean over all his enemies and especially over his present...