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...There two men, by ordinary reckoning relatively minor contenders, met in the center of the ring with all the world looking on. Australia's white-haired Robert Gordon Menzies, assured and sagacious, faced Egypt's young Gamal Abdel Nasser, clever and ambitious. The stakes were high, the din was deafening and the outcome uncertain...
...those grown fond of the din, the 1956 Republican National Convention may well have seemed dull, and, compared to the Democratic meeting (or past G.O.P. conventions), it was. There were no fights, no cliff-hanging situations. With hardly a discordant tock to its tick, it ran off with multi-jewel precision. At the flick of a hand from Hollywood's George Murphy, the convention entertainment director, singers of all shapes and sizes appeared to entertain the delegates. At the drop of a G.O.P. hero's name, sign-toting Young Republicans in varsity sweaters snake-danced down Cow Palace...
...William Stuart Symington, 54, his handsome features and square shoulders set off by a trim blue suit, beamed as he waited to acknowledge the nomination as Missouri's favorite son. "This is one of the greatest honors that has ever come to me," said Symington into the waning din. "As long as I live, I shall always thank you from the bottom of my heart...
...weeks Western governments had known that the Russians were going to do it. Nikita Khrushchev had said as much to Harold Stassen, amidst the drinks and din of the party at Claridge's. But when the announcement came last week that the Soviet Union would reduce its armed forces by 1,200,000 men by May 1957, the response of the West was confused, contradictory and uncertain...
...zvon's Cambridge premier was Easter Sunday of 1931. When Andronoff came up to practice for his opening concert, students raged, neighbors protested, and it is said that one day he left the tower just before a policeman appeared to stop the din of sextatonic harmony...