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...leaders, businessmen and other prominent Europeans who sat down with the U.S. President during his eight-day tour. While Nixon was occasionally greeted by protesting demonstrators, there were many gratifying moments of spontaneity and warmth. Outside Claridge's hotel in London, when Nixon ventured a U.S.-campaign-style foray of handshaking, Mrs. Violet Reeve exclaimed: "Eee! You've got luvverly warm hands!" "That," replied Nixon, "is because I've got a lovely warm car." At a Berlin electrical factory, his audience took up a cry that turned around the "Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh!" chant of anti...
Columbia shocked the basketball world by dropping two straight Ivy League games this past weekend, to Princeton on Friday and to Pennsylvania on Saturday. Before that unfortunate foray, Columbia boasted a 15-1 record and was the odds-on choice to repeat as Ivy champion...
There was also a kind of poetic symbolism in Ted Kennedy's first real foray into national politics. It was Jack Kennedy's assassination that brought Lyndon Johnson to power. Bobby Kennedy's energetic campaign helped persuade many restive Americans that the old order might, after all, be redeemable. In the dying days of a Democratic Administration, the last of the clan rekindled a beacon of courage and change-one that should certainly brighten his party and the Senate and may yet achieve the full promise of a haunted dynasty...
...many firms that have not been restricted by the exchange, brokers are also quick to show the door to the speculator whose hankering for cheap stocks usually means a foray into the untidy over-the-counter market, where most of today's stock-delivery foul-ups occur. Says a broker at Chicago's G.H. Walker & Co.: "Frankly, we're going to refuse the guy who wants to buy 1,000 shares of a $1 stock. On the other hand, if he's got $800 for a blue-chip stock, I'd take that business." Since...
...Nixon. Crucial states were still teetering. "It's a real Donnybrook," Humphrey declared with characteristic ebullience. Yet the grin was grim. Giving endless thanks to his staff, family and supporters, Humphrey spoke less like a man who still entertained hope than like one who was recounting a heroic foray that had failed...