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Coffee, 15?. The prices were an indication of the times. Some 47,000 grandstand seats along the parade route were sold out-at $2 to $10 a throw. Street concessionaires posted their price lists: coffee, 15?; hot dogs, 20?. Washington hotels had been booked solid for months-some at triple the normal rate-and clamorous visitors were begging for sleeping space as far away as Philadelphia and Pittsburgh...
Only the privileged would see the formal ceremonies on the Capitol steps, conducted before an $80,000 grandstand erected by the 80th Congress, in anticipation of a Republican President. But there were some 80 other special events, from a Hollywood variety show to the formal Inaugural Ball in the National Guard Armory. There would be a 7-mile-long parade, with 40 floats, 30 bands, a steam calliope, thousands of marching troops and civilians, an air umbrella of 650 military aircraft...
...Egyptian sea and air raid, which did little damage, looked like a grandstand act to save face at home. On the battlefronts in the Negeb desert, the Christmas war was grinding to a halt, and the Jews once more were the victors. In ten days they had driven the last Egyptian from the territory assigned them by the original U.N. partition plan, and occupied almost all the southern desert up to Egypt's border. Only at Gaza and the Faluja pocket were the Egyptians able to hold...
Honor guests, including U.S. officials, bankers and businessmen flown down from the mainland, watched the ceremony and inaugural parade from a grandstand on the steps of the marble Capitol. Munoz took the oath of office, administered by Chief Justice Angel de Jesús, shook hands with the judge, exchanged a warm abrazo with retiring Governor Jesus T. Pinero. Then Muñoz spoke to his people...
Last week, on the desolate, shell-pocked plateau outside Caen, scholars from Harvard, Yale and Smith, from Oxford, Liege, and Lausanne, and ambassadors from Belgium, Canada, and Sweden, gathered near a grandstand bedecked with flags. There France's Minister of National Education Yvon Delbos and Minister of Reconstruction Claudius Petit laid the cornerstone of the new university. Later, at a convocation in Caen's movie theater, the only large auditorium left in the city, an honorary degree was awarded to a university president who wasn't there: Columbia's Dwight D. Eisenhower, whose invasion plans...