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...Gaulle?and Paris?had arranged a hero's welcome. There were two dazzling escorts: first, 50 epauleted motorcycle police, then the plumed, sword-bearing cavalry of the Garde Républicaine. Gay banners of red, white and blue bedecked the streets; kiosks were dotted with magazine pictures of the visitors. The huge crowd?including some Latin Quarter students who hoisted a Harvard banner and others who roared out a football-chant countdown of "Kenne-un, Kenne-deux, Kenne-trois . . . Kenne-dix!"?warmly greeted Jack and Jacqueline Kennedy. After the trip. De Gaulle proudly told Kennedy: "You had more than...
...place. Adelaide's Charles Birk's department store, picked out a $25-a-week salesgirl, broad-shouldered, brunette Olympic Swimming Champion Dawn Fraser, 23. Figuring that her five world records would make her all but unbeatable in swim-conscious Australia, the party invited Dawn to carry its banner but got a polite brush-off. "I understand one of the party's aims is to do away with the royal family." said loyal Monarchist Dawn. "I'm definitely against that. I'm an admirer of the royal family, and after all, I'm a British...
...poster for an exhibition commemorating the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Polish Communist Party is a subtle and muted tribute to those who once risked their lives for what was supposed to be a noble cause. It is a simple collage of a torn piece of red banner plus scraps of leaflets and crude slogans written hastily on a wall...
...much more federal patronage will go to the liberals' darling in Washington, Senator Ralph Yarborough (who pointedly did not endorse Blakley). More important, Tower's victory was certain to hasten the coming of a true two-party system in Texas-with conservatives swinging over to the Republican banner, and the liberals gaining more power in Democratic ranks...
...kinds of exam books for about every school and college in New England, but Harvard orders only the blue 16- and 32-page books. Radcliffe also has blue books but numbers them in sequence--to keep tabs on their where-abouts. Some Harvard books have a thin black banner across the corner just to keep the undergraduate honest...