Word: confetti
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Special editions came off presses from Taiwan to Fleet Street like confetti. Records for circulation, promotion, mass staffing, and words written were broken everywhere. At week's end the Miami News delivered to its readers a staggering 16-page, 33,000-word narrative describing the Apollo 11 mission. In New York, the Times devoted 18 pages to moon news. Even with a press run increased by 75,000, the Times literally disappeared from newsstands Monday morning-some copies going for upwards of $1 on the black market. Both the New York Post and Daily News datelined landing-day issues...
...Hostile Confetti. The journey was undertaken to boost "vest pockets of volunteerism," which Mrs. Nixon describes as "those small, splendid efforts of dedicated people that the President spoke about in his Inaugural Address." The cause promises to be for her what national beautification was for Lady Bird Johnson. "I want to make volunteerism the In thing to do," she told a group in Los Angeles. "I think this is the answer to our problems here in America...
Though the reception was cordial in most places, the First Lady was deluged with hostile confetti at a social service center in Portland, Ore. Each scrap of paper was imprinted: "If this was napalm, you would be dead." This greeting, planned by a protest group that has offices in the same building, was accompanied by banners and placards taunting her about Viet Nam and hunger. As Pat gamely launched into her speech, seven barefoot girls in black burst into the hall and chanted an antiwar hex on her in crude doggerel...
...Catholics (who number 500,000 in a population of 1,500,000) have chafed with increasing bitterness under this arrangement. Through the years, clashes between Protestants and Catholics-especially in the capital of Belfast -have drawn enough Irish temper from both sides to make "Belfast confetti" a second name for paving stones. During the past five months, the bitterness has erupted almost weekly in a wave of demonstrations, street riots and vigilantism. The unrest has presented the country's moderate Prime Minister, Captain Terence O'Neill, with his toughest problem and most serious political challenge in six years...
...Nobody knew that Tuesday night--the official returns didn't come in. But when, at 12:45 a.m., Eugene Nickerson, Nassau Country Executive, said, "I don't have the figures, but it's my understanding that we've won," the 2000 Lowenstein supporters in the room broke into hysterical, confetti-throwing cheers...