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...Greenwich Village, and along the Ginza, an army of orangehelmeted workmen swarms out to remove temporary planks covering the streets, while trailer trucks roar up to dump fuming loads of fill into yawning caverns. Thousands of lights sway in the evening breeze, sending crooked shadows under the neon. At dawn, the trucks and workers disappear like cockroaches. Then the city's kamikaze cab drivers emerge and proudly tell their fares: "All for the Olympics...
...began the metamorphosis of Hubert Humphrey. He was, and he remains, a torrential talker. In 1958 his 81-hour interview in Moscow with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev left interpreters reeling. His formal speeches have been clocked at a breathless 250 words a minute, and he will rapidly discourse until dawn on any subject, to any audience, on any occasion. Even last week, when Johnson finally told Humphrey that he would be the vice-presidential nominee, the President still felt compelled to warn Humphrey against talking too much...
Needs Understood. The noise begins at dawn with the loudspeaker chants of muezzins from minarets, followed by the clangor of bells from Christian churches. Auto horns, the plaintive cries of peddlers, and the bray of donkeys blend with the screech of jet planes. With evening comes the sound of 64 nightclubs, the throb of motorboats carrying gamblers up the coast to the Casino de Liban, and the shrill cries of prostitutes in the block-long Bourg Central Square in the heart of town...
...Washington it was after dawn on Sunday- before the Pentagon had compiled a complete report on the distant sea action. Lyndon Johnson was informed as he dressed for church. To the White House he summoned his top advisers: Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Under Secretary George Ball, Deputy Defense Secretary Cy Vance and General Earle Wheeler, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, weekending in Newport, R.I., got a hurry-up call and rushed back to the capital. For 45 minutes the President and his aides discussed the attack, decided to play the whole affair...
Late one night, 200 of Alice's followers sacked 19 towns in an orgy of looting and slaughter. When dawn came, 75 lay dead behind them, 1,200 were homeless. Stunned by the massacre, Prime Minister Kaunda ordered a full-scale offensive against the fanatics, who were now outlawed by official decree. "I want Alice Lenshina dead or alive!" he cried, waving a black kerchief to a mourning throng. Next day government troops attacked two Lenshina strongholds, killing 81 hostile warriors. But of Alice there was no trace...