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...John Young were safely down from their Gemini voyage into space, and in Manhattan for the parades and banquets. Into the Waldorf-Astoria marched Andrea, and ran right up to the dais, where she handed the startled Grissom a pair of square Florentine cuff links and a tie clasp, then burst into tears. No emergency procedures for Gus. He just introduced her as "my Number One fan," gave her his chair and sat on the floor while the mayor spoke. "We made it, Gus and I," sighed Andrea, 16. "We both made...
During the services, Sydnor baptized a two-month-old girl, took the baby to the President, who rose, unfastened his gold "L.B.J. '64" tie clasp, attached it to the baby's dress. In his sermon, Sydnor said that "perhaps the greatest single need of our world is reconciliation -reconciliation between husband and wife, labor and management, race and race, nation and nation." Afterward, over coffee in the parish hall, the President told Mrs. Sydnor: "The rector must have written that sermon for me. That's the business I'm in, you know, the business of reconciliation...
...Clasp, a Pat. Unlike the preceding week, Latin America's leaders seemed less reserved about De Gaulle and his suggestions for a Latin bond. The crowds everywhere remained heartening, pressing in to cheer el general francés with such enthusiasm that De Gaulle time and again sidestepped his security men to clasp a hand or pat a head. And that, after all, was why he had come -to be seen and remembered, to reinvigorate the French presence...
...have met him time and again at addresses in Manhattan that, according to the current city directory, do not exist. The CIA, he said, supplied him with all of the spy's normal accouterments: treated paper, invisible ink, a miniature tape recorder and microphone designed as a tie clasp, code books and a tiny shortwave radio...
...last week this essentially British cartoon character was appearing in 170 newspapers in 31 countries, including the U.S.-where, in a single month, his syndication has climbed to 90-odd papers. Wherever Andy is imported, readers clasp him instantly as one of their own. Said an editor of Istanbul's Hareket Gazetesi: "Andy is as much Turkish as he is English, and he is probably Greek, Italian and Polish too. Our readers got addicted to him in a week. As one of them put it, he is what every man wants to be in his spare time...