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...Grasse, whose naval blockade sealed the English defeat at Yorktown). There, after lobster and lamb, Mitterrand told Reagan that he relished "the humor of your conversation" and toasted "the generous smile of Mrs. Reagan." A few hours later the Presidents, their wives and 92 others arrived, amid fife-and-drum fanfare, for a black-tie state dinner at the 260-year-old Royal Governor's Palace in Williamsburg, twelve miles from Yorktown. Reagan, loose and happy, spilled a wineglass; Mitterrand, somewhat less bouncy, ate what was undoubtedly his first Virginia ham biscuit...
...White House to greet the Chancellor's limousine at the diplomatic entrance. While guns boomed out a 19-gun salute, a Marine band played the German national anthem and then the Star-Spangled Banner. There was a flashy presentation of colors by an honor guard, and a bewigged fife and drum corps, wearing colonial dress, marched...
...Fife Bryan, Texas
Everything about the office smells of Americana. Sedate, sterile, wooden--the white church in the middle of Medford Square conjures up the archetypes of old New England. What isn't dark or neutral is flag-colored, like the fife-and-drum wallpaper that peels at its yellowed seams. A red telephone, the locus, sits ominously on the pastor's oaken desk. When it rings, the sound is shrill, urgent, like the Oval Office hot line or the Batphone. But to Pastor Tom Michael, the caller on the other end transcends Zbigniew Brzezinski or Commissioner Gordon. For when the enemy...
...Freestyle Relay: 1. Brown 3:19.44 (Rento, Rlaine. levin, Fife...