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...Vivas!" of street crowds, shook hands untiringly at dinners and parties, slept well under a robe of vicuna pelts at the embassy, got up as early as usual. On his last day he went sightseeing. In the morning he took a 2½-hour jaunt in the Sacred Cow, peered down from 13,000 feet at smoking Paricutin volcano. After that, reddening in the sun, he drove 30 miles to view the archeological wonders of Teotihuacan, ate lunch in a flower-walled tent, and marveled at the ancient Temple of Quetzalcoatl...
When the Sacred Cow landed at Kansas City he rode off to the Muehlebach Hotel, went to a suite for lunch. One hour and 30 minutes later he got back into a black Lincoln limousine with his physician, strapping Brigadier General Wallace Graham, and drove the 20 slushy miles to Mrs. Truman's neat, cream-colored bungalow...
...praying, she said, that he would be the greatest President in history. When he left, to give his brother Vivian a lift across town, and then to return to Kansas City and the Sacred Cow, she told him, as always...
With the momentous decision on Greece settled at the top level (see The Nation), Harry Truman took off on a long-planned trip. Once before he had been in Mexico City, as a U.S. Senator in 1939. This week as the Sacred Cow dipped down over the ancient Aztec capital he came as the first U.S. President the city had ever seen...
...British Organist Sir Walter Parrat once said: "I think that if you put a cow into York she would moo beautifully...