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Resplendent in white khadi, with the inevitable red rosebud in his buttonhole, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru flew to Karachi last week. Prime Minister Mohammed Ali was on hand to greet him, while more than 100,000 Pakistanis lined the dusty streets, waving Indian flags as well as their own. From a people that had expected, feared or threatened war with India for six years, this was indeed a surprising welcome...
...Francisco airport, the crowd waiting to greet General Mark Clark on his return from the Far East caught sight first of Mrs. Clark, who flashed a wide-open look of joy when she spied her daughter, Mrs. Gordon Costing. After welcoming ceremonies and a four-mile parade, the Clarks went on to New Orleans, where the general served as best man at the wedding of their only son, Major William Clark, 28, a thrice-wounded Korean veteran, and 25-year-old Fashion Model Audrey Loflin...
...wharves of Karachi were gay with posters that showed U.S. and Pakistani flags joined by clasped hands beneath a stalk of wheat. Cabinet ministers, a 40-piece band and 2,000 spectators were on hand to greet the U.S. freighter Anchorage Victory, bringing the first of 1,000,000 tons of surplus wheat sent by President Eisenhower to relieve the nation's famine...
...came up to the 18th green, where a golf-wise crowd of 20,000, bigger than any Hogan had ever seen in the U.S., was waiting to greet him. The British Open was all but certainly his already, but he had a final course-burning in mind: a birdie four would give him a 68, a Carnoustie course record. To the roars of 20,000 fans, Ben Hogan shot his birdie four. His 282 for 72 holes beat the rest of the strong Carnoustie field by four...
...Funerals. In merriment-minded Tehuantepec, any pretext for a party goes; the commonest is a wedding. By custom, after the newlyweds retire, celebrators gather outside the bridal chamber, drinking and shouting broad sallies at the groom. Later, when he comes out to greet the crowd, firecrackers explode and an all-night fiesta starts. Scarcely less gay are wakes and funerals (where a favored dirge is the tune of Yes, We Have No Bananas). There are 21 scheduled community fiestas a year in the town...