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Down the street, Kennedy walked into a fish store and, as Vellucci tells it, the owner of the store began to wipe his hands on his apron in order to greet the Congressman and presidential aspirant...
There were no national anthems, no 21-gun salutes. Nonetheless, last week as Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi strode onto the tarmac at New Delhi airport to greet Pakistani President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq last week, the occasion was momentous. Since the partitioning of Pakistan from India 35 years ago, relations between the Asian subcontinent's two major powers have been soured by three wars, border clashes and a legacy of bitterness and suspicion. Remarked a senior Indian official: "This is a historic moment...
...Barajas Airport, Spanish voters had given Socialist Felipe González Márquez, 40, a landslide victory in national elections. Arriving during a tense period of political transition, the Pope told King Juan Carlos, González and the nation's military leaders, "I would like to greet and pay my respects to the legitimate representatives of the Spanish people...
Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili (1879-1953) lives again! Pink, incorruptible and smelling only a little of mold, the Maximum Leader and Supreme Baby Kisser of the Soviet Peoples has come back to greet us. Who would ever have supposed that the most immediately memorable show in New York City's SoHo, at the start of the 1982 art season, would be a gallery full of mock Stalinist socialist realism, done in the correct borsch-and-gravy colors of official Soviet art 30 years ago? But there is nothing that pluralism will not give us; and so it is with...
...from Rosalynn: "Jimmy, the Reagans will be here in 15 minutes. You will have to put on your morning clothes and greet them...