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Behind the labyrinth of burnt-orange desk dividers sat many of the most competent and respected journalists in America. At any given time about 600 people worked on the third floor. As a replacement for the receptionist during two weeks of the summer, I greeted many of these people every morning when they arrived at work. I got the feeling that if I didn't greet them with a smile and a "good morning" they would only tell time by the edition of the paper that sat on their desks...
Cambodia's exiled Prince Norodom Sihanouk, 57, has a palace in North Korea's capital, Pyongyang, a residence in Peking and now honorary citizenship in the Maryland town of New Carrollton (pop. 14,000). It was conferred during Sihanouk's visit to greet Cambodian refugees living there and pray with them in a service presided over by saffron-robed monks who later feted their former ruler with cakes and tea. The Prince, who is in the U.S. to generate support for a neutral Cambodia, is also visiting refugee groups to see how they fare in a faraway...
...lived on Huron Avenue (at the other end of Cambridge) for four years, and I couldn't wait to get out--I knew maybe five people. Here I walk out the door and greet 20 people," Caragianes explains...
After he speaks, Kennedy will go directly to Sanders Theater "just to greet the students and thank them for coming out," Beal said...
...greatest challenges of her reign, however, came not from the political arena but from troubles within the royal family itself. In the 1950s she nearly caused a constitutional crisis by her involvement with Faith Healer Greet Hofmans, whose help she had sought to cure her semiblind youngest daughter, Maria Christina. Another shock came in 1964; although the House of Orange has been staunchly Protestant for 400 years, Daughter Irene converted to Catholicism in order to marry Carlos Hugo, an exiled Spanish prince. Two years later, Crown Princess Beatrix caused a public outcry by marrying German Diplomat Claus von Amsberg...