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Until recently, few democratic nations other than the U.S. have provided elaborate security arrangements for heads of state and government, and most still do not. The fashion of "pressing the flesh" U.S.-style has spread to other countries. But the traditional reserve and respect toward leaders in cultures older than that of the U.S. still often hold sway, as do moral and social restraints on aberrant individual behavior. Besides, foreign laws' often permit authorities to be tougher, locking suspects up arbitrarily when they think trouble may be brewing...
Stone:.. with a synthesizer-like framework of harpsichord, piano, and organ notes played simultaneously, which is much too tightly controlled to flesh out the emotion in the words...
...wider and more regular, and the stadium is bigger and more conventional. People in Baltimore do not take any one game as seriously as Boston fans; there is a sense of permanence and resilience about the Orioles in Baltimore that would be utterly lost to the torrent of flesh that anguishes its way down Brookline Avenue after a Red Sox loss. When the Orioles lose, the boulevard outside does not ring with tragedy. Nothing is as precarious as the short-left field wall in Boston might convince...
Only six days after the threat to his life by Squeaky Fromme, President Ford last week was back doing what comes naturally: plunging into the crowds and pressing flesh with the people. It was the familiar rite-but this time there were some unsettling differences...
Despite the vigilance of the Secret Service, American Presidents traditionally make themselves easy targets for would-be assassins. They love to get out among the people−"to press the flesh," in Lyndon Johnson's homey phrase−to show that they are just plain Americans after all (see The Presidency, page 18). No one could reach the White House while campaigning from behind a bulletproof glass. Just hours after his near escape, Gerald Ford was emphatically and calmly telling newsmen that "this incident under no circumstances will prevent me or preclude me from contacting the American people...