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...Hand in Hand." On the five-mile ride into Mexico City, some 200,000 people lined the streets (v. 1,500,000 who turned out for Jack and Jackie Kennedy in 1962). Standing in his black Mercedes convertible, De Gaulle was showered with vivas and confetti. Everywhere, in shop windows, in newspapers, on billboards, portraits of De Gaulle beamed back at the visitor. They ranged from thumbnail-size De Gaulles on 1,000,000 commemorative stamps to a five-story likeness hung in Mexico City's Plaza de la Constituci...
Campus police arrested and Goldwaterite who dumped confetti from a hole in the hall's ceiling. The confetti originally belonged to the Rockefeller group. According to one rumor, a Rockefeller floor leader, knowing what the police would do, tricked him into using...
...luxury Ducor Intercontinental Hotel, and paramount chiefs representing Liberia's 20-odd tribes brought with them retinues of up to 30 people, including wives, children, relatives, and entertainers such as dancers and drummers. In the streets, delirious crowds held arches of flowers and hurled bushels of confetti as Tubman whirled proudly through the streets in his Cadillac convertible during the inauguration festivities. Applause greeted every pronouncement in his inaugural address until he came to the final ringing sentence: "I enter upon the execution of the sacred task to which I have been called for the fifth and, I earnestly...
Trust No One. What mainly messed up Rover was a complicated organizational system that has scattered authority about like confetti. Responsibility for Rover was fuzzily divided between the AEC and NASA. Vital component work was assigned, without clear coordination, to private and Government facilities ranging from Sunnyvale, Calif., to Pittsburgh. One key program was held up for four months while an official held a contract on his desk. Said Norris Bradbury, director of the AEC's Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory: "We have seen trivial things like the wrong gaskets being used, which contaminate the system. Crud gets in there...
...painting goes on display for three weeks. Back home, the rhubarb over her visit to the U.S. raged all the louder. "Knowing Americans," snarled one art critic "they'll probably have her parading down Fifth Avenue in the bitter cold in an open car under tons of confetti...