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...White House in a year, and became the agent in charge in 1946. His toughest assignment was Ike's trip to Korea but this month Rowley is thinking ahead to the Big Four conference. Plans already call for an Air Force fighter and air-sea rescue escort for the Columbine, and Rowley will never be far from the President until he returns to U.S. soil...
Perfect administration insured the successful assault on Essex, Magnolia Beach, and the Manchester Yacht Club. The fleet of buses and its motorcycle escort fled from Cambridge shortly after 9 a.m., carrying picnickers not mobilized in cars. All day, low murky clouds and cool breezes threatened to bring rain, but fortunately the spirits remained high and not dampened...
After the reunioners dined at tables set up in the large auditorium, their progeny were whisked to balconies from the Hasty Pudding and Union, where they had dined and danced, by chartered busses surrounded by a screaming motorcycle escort...
Included in the Center's reports are isolated examples of occasions which show the power of love against aggression and enmity. "At Pee, Siberia," Sorokin recorded, "during the famine, a young relief worker assigned to drive oxcarts over robber-ridden roads, refused a military escort. When robbers did stop him, he asked them to help him transport the food to the starving people. Instead of attacking him, they helped...
...library was run almost like an exclusive club. Only scholars known to its staffers could gain access to its books and manuscripts-after writing in advance. Even the favored few were stopped by the silken rope, had to sit on a bench until a staff member came to escort them to the books. As a result, days went by without a single visitor gracing the reading room. Virtually untouched were its great prizes: 79 Shakespeare First Folios (no other library has more than four...