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...Visited the Smithsonian Institution to commemorate the 34th anniversary of the designation of The Star-Spangled Banner as the U.S. national anthem. Standing before the flag that flew over Fort McHenry, Johnson declared: "A number of Americans have complained that The Star-Spangled Banner is not the easiest song to sing. I must admit that I have had a little trouble with a few parts of it myself. But the senti ments attached to that sturdy old song are overwhelming...
...there was a reception at which Australian lady athletes "hitched up their skirts and tucked silver pepper and salt shakers and crystal wineglasses into the tops of their stockings or inside their girdles." Flags are particularly coveted: at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, Dawn herself stole a five-ring Olympic banner from the Imperial Palace Grounds, was tackled by pursuing cops as she tried to dive into the palace moat. When police found out who she was, they made her a present of the flag. And how about the poor Japanese traveling salesman who committed the error of parking outside...
Robert U. Woodward, chairman of the Yale yearbook, The Banner, announced last night that the 1965 Banner will be dedicated to Richard V. Sewall, master of Ezra Stiles College. Sewell has strongly advocated reversal of the administration ruling denying tenure to professor of philosophy Richard J. Bernstein...
There was none of the jostling, banner-waving excitement of a normal Chilean election. The festooning posters that usually blot out Santiago were scarcely in evidence, and even the slogans were muted. That is the way Eduardo Frei, Chile's new Christian Democratic President, wants it. Next week, when 2,920,000 voters choose a full Assembly and half of the Senate, the issue, as Frei somberly puts it, is whether or not they will "make a Parliament for Frei"-in other words, make it possible to carry out the platform on which he was elected last September...
...point, where Oxenstierna happens to meet the two young people and, taking pity on them, gives them a safe-conduct that ironically leads to their deaths. Yet the two narratives could hardly be more intimately related. They are the gorgeous upper side and slimy reverse of a banner dragged across a muddy battlefield...