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...only head of state among the guests, De Gaulle rated the most elaborate welcome at the airport, including a 21-gun salute, a bigger limousine, a larger motorcycle escort. Television cameras zeroed in on him, and Roman crowds shouted, "Viva De Gaulle!" As the guests and their Italian hosts walked from a ceremony in the Palazzo dei Conservatori through Michelangelo's Piazza del Campidoglio, the other European leaders and Eurocrats trailed behind le grand Charles like captive barbarians in one of Caesar's triumphal parades...
...only for a while. Some ships bearing goods to Israel have already sailed for Elath. If Nasser is adamant about turning back Israeli ships, the U.S. and Britain (both of which had naval task forces cruising in the Middle East last week) may have to decide whether to escort the ships and risk a major confrontation with Nasser in defense of the 1958 accord that declared the gulf to be international water; Russia also signed the accord...
Married. David Hamilton, 26, advertising copywriter and younger brother of Actor George Hamilton, Lynda Bird's favorite escort; and Helle Melchior, 20, comely Danish granddaughter of Opera Tenor Lauritz Melchior; in Los Angeles...
...Cooke was photographing the Wall from the western side, a soldier from the other side kept blinking a mirror into his lens. One frustration for the visiting journalist in East Germany is the obligatory, ever-present "guide," for whose services the government charges $40 a day. Nickel's escort was a friendly but ideologically correct type who called the Western correspondent "beloved enemy." But, said Nickel, "when my conversation with people touched on sensitive matters, he discreetly hid his head behind a newspaper to make us feel at ease, although he later nonchalantly asked what had been said...
...instance, the College Government Handbook for 1932-1933 states: "The college dormitories close for the night at ten o'clock, and every student is required to be in her house at that hour, except in the following instances: 1. Seniors and juniors, if accompanied by an escort or a chaperone, or in groups of two or more, may return from the moving pictures in Wellesley Hills or Natick until 11:00 p.m. and from entertainments in Boston until 1:00 a.m., registering at their dormitories. 4. A student registered for an overnight absence from the college must spend the night...