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...critical issues, he did move the German Chancellor to exclaim: "Whether you agree with him or not, what a man!" Next week Canada will be exposed to the treatment. On a five-day visit, the general will float grandly up the Saint Lawrence River on the French cruiser Colbert, motor from Quebec to Montreal, greeting thousands of French Canadians along the way, then look over Expo 67. Only afterward, despite the Canadian governments entreaties, will he condescend to touch down at the English-speaking capital of Ottawa...
...With Flags Flying." At hand for just such an eventuality-as it has been for 20 years-was the U.S. Sixth Fleet: 50 ships and 25,000 men led by the cruiser Little Rock and including a six-ship amphibious force whose 2,000 Marines were hurriedly recalled from shore leave in Naples, packed aboard their vessels and sped toward the crisis zone. The antisubmarine carrier Intrepid, bound for Viet Nam, was ordered to tarry for a while in the Med. The British aircraft carrier Victorious, en route home from Singapore, also was ordered to cruise about...
About 50 students were gathered in front of the student union when a rumor went through the crowd that a policeman had shot a six-year-old Negro child that day. Someone heaved a watermelon at a police cruiser, and the crowd dispersed to shout the shooting rumor through the campus. It was too late to tell them that the six-year-old was actually a white child wounded by a white boy who was target-shooting...
...plane at Le Bourget 33 hours and 30 minutes later, legend insists that he said: "Well, here we are." He was mobbed by the public and feted by the great (he had to borrow a suit to meet the President of France). President Calvin Coolidge sent a U.S. Navy cruiser to bring him home, and was waiting for him at the foot of the Washington Monument when he arrived. U.S. Ambassador to France Myron Herrick spoke for most when he declared: "He stood forth amidst clamor and crowds, the very embodiment of fearless, kindly, cultivated American youth-unspoiled, unspoilable...
Patrolman William Coughlin, driver of the cruiser, suffered multiple cuts and chest injuries. He is reported to be in "fair" condition at Cambridge City Hospital...