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...butler, waiting. Over in the Oval Office, her husband had just finished the most consequential diplomatic meeting of his first term, last fall's tete-a-tete with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. Now, for a few minutes, she was to do her duty as First Lady, to greet and charm the visitor from Moscow...
...appears that it was never Dr. Counter's concern to address these questions. A group of Black students stood waiting in the foyer of Lehman Hall hoping to get a glimpse of Mr. Hooks before he was whisked to his limousine. Hooks spotted these students and went over to greet them warmly, causing a look of horror to cross Dr. Counter's face. Did he believe that the adornment of a black tie was necessary to give legitimacy to a Black student...
What can indeed be even more humiliating than the physical impediments facing the disabled are what they say are the often patronizing attitudes or the lack of understanding with which their fellow students and teachers greet their problems...
...Canadian boats using the canal to get to the Hudson and the Atlantic Ocean. A large trimaran, the Tournamente of Toronto, its mast removed and lashed to the deck, chugs by under power, its crew bundled against the autumn chill and waving as much to keep warm as to greet the Peckinpaugh and its crew. Other pleasure craft slide by as the morning wears on. Their destinations: Florida, the Bahamas, the Virgin Islands...
...budget entitlements, of thunderhead deficits that could prove anything any candidate wanted to prove. Yet underneath, more enduring and more important, was a clash between American cultures. At bottom the candidates were talking about the community of Americans, torn by enormous surges of new forces, bewildered by how to greet or resist them. The campaign was about how we live together-in short, about our culture as a nation in change...