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...screen, dropped stink bombs, and smashed some seats. As dismayed citizens rushed for the exits, the police arrived, went after the demonstrators, carted off 70 prisoners. Finally order was restored. The citizens drifted back to the theater, and after everybody had stood up and sung the national anthem, the showing of the movie was resumed...
Some 600 "reconverted" men of 16 different nationalities have formed a McIndoe alumni group called "The Guinea Pig Club." The lighthearted lyrics of the club's anthem are a tribute to Sir Archibald's success in salvaging minds as well as faces...
...ceremony was over. As the crowd below echoed the cheer, she threw her arms around her daughter and bussed her firmly. Juliana wept. A few minutes later, the ex-Queen left the balcony and the realm to her successor. In the square below, the crowd burst into the traditional anthem Up Orange! Some remembered to alter the last line to "Long Live Juliana!" Others went right on singing "Long Live Wilhelmina," as they had for 50 years...
Last week Mrs. Guerrero, now a pale, scarred woman of 30, arrived in San Francisco. On the dock to greet her were Army officials, civic dignitaries, and a crowd of 300 veterans who remembered Joey. Bands played the Philippine national anthem. An Air Force plane waited to fly her to Carville. With her arms full of flowers, Joey could only stammer: "This more than I expected...
...Haganah Bren-gunners. The 13 men who would rule the new Jewish state sat down at a long table on a raised dais. Over their heads were white Zionist flags bearing two pale blue stripes and a blue Star of David. The assemblage rose to sing the Zionist anthem Hatikvah-"The ancient longing will be fulfilled, to return to the land ... of our fathers...