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...Harry Truman arrived at Washington's Union Station to leave for Independence six hours after the inauguration he was greeted by a cheering crowd so heavy that he had trouble getting to his train. ("Make way for the President," boomed the public address system.) When the strains of Auld Lang Syne had died away, Harry Truman made his farewell to Washington. "In all my political career I have never had anything like this," said he. "I'll never forget it if I live to be a hundred, and that's just what I expect...
...familiar strains of Auld Lang Syne swelled up from a sprawling cluster of tiny coral islands in the Indian Ocean last week, but the singers were not celebrating the New Year; they were merely singing their own national anthem. After years of autocratic rule under Sultans known as the Golden Feet,* the Maldive (rhymes with small hive) Islands had just become the world's newest republic. Queen Elizabeth herself sent the Moslem islanders a message from another island, wishing them "good luck, fair winds and calm waters." A British cruiser stood by to fire a salute, and thousands...
...auld tale opens i' bauld fashion, as bonnie Charlie lands i' the Western hi'lands. He gathers the braw clansmen about him i' a unco handsome scene, verra probably set on the only cloudless day i' the recent climes o' Scotia. The skirl o' the pipes, the fearsom' whoops o' the hairy-legged hi'landers and the proud switchin's o' their kilts bode fair to make this a noble screening o' that mirk rebellion o' 1745. But e'en were there ha' sae much blather as the remains of the movie showed, 'twould be wee wonder that the Scotsmen...
...shall have the honor, sir, to meet you with drawn claymore, sir, behind the auld kirk at dawn. To paraphrase the Scottish national motto, Nemo me impune lactessit...
...Auld Lang Syne. In Charleston, S.C., when Mailman James Brawley retired after 46 years of service, his fellow carriers presented him with a mailbox...