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...thing that Ronald Reagan has restored to the White House is a sense of pomp and ceremony. On a balmy spring day last week, hundreds of Executive Office workers turned out to watch as the President greeted West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt in grand style. There were ruffles and flourishes when Reagan and Nancy strode out of the White House to greet the Chancellor's limousine at the diplomatic entrance. While guns boomed out a 19-gun salute, a Marine band played the German national anthem and then the Star-Spangled Banner. There was a flashy presentation of colors...
When the big Boeing and its high-priced hitchhiker landed on the Kennedy Space Center's new three-mile-long shuttle runway, there was none of the hoopla that marked the launch. Only 3,000 people, mostly NASA employees and their families, were on hand to greet the space voyager. No one seemed to miss the attention. As a spokesman explained, "This is routine. It's going to be coming back here many, many times...
...greet you in these times of griel and sorrow. We want you to know what has taken place in this mining center so that through your mediation the barbarbous cruelty can be divulged . . . The Max Toledo Regiment attacked Caracoles with guns, mortars, tanks and war planes; our husbands defended themselves with stones, sticks and dynamite. By Monday afternoon most of the miners were dead, and the survivors either fled to the hills or houses in Villa Carmen. Army troops pursued them and killed some men in their homes, arrested and tortured others and bayonetted many. They also decapitated the wounded...
...press described the sudden jaunt to Warsaw last week of a high-level Soviet delegation headed by hawkish Politburo Ideologue Mikhail Suslov. But friendship, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. For hard-lining Polish Politburo Members Stefan Olszowski and Tadeusz Grabski, who were on hand to greet their Soviet comrades at Okecie Airport, the handshakes must have felt fraternal indeed. For Warsaw's Party Boss Stanislaw Kania, who led the delegation, and who has shown a tenacious commitment to reform, Suslov's arrival may have seemed more like a Siberian blizzard...
...institution she takes on in this, the sixth Cross book. The Harvard that appears in Death in a Tenured Position is big, smug, successful and emphatically male--a sort of hybrid of the oracle of Delphi and the balcony men's room at the Boston Garden. Its entrenched inhabitants greet change with affection usually reserved for sneezing leprosy victims...