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...hobbit habit seems to be almost as catching as LSD. On many U.S. campuses, buttons declaring FRODO LIVES and GO GO GANDALF-frequently written in Elvish script-are almost as common as football letters. Tolkien fans customarily greet each other with a hobbity kind of greeting ("May the hair on your toes grow ever longer"), toss fragments of hobbit language into their ordinary talk. One favorite word is mathom, meaning something one saves but doesn't need, as in "I've just got to get rid of all these mathoms." Permanently hooked Ringworms frequently memorize long passages from...
...times-so loud and near that bystanders felt the breath of the guns. The honor guard was resplendent in grey, gold and red, and their rifle butts hit the ground with such popping precision that De Gaulle winced involuntarily. "Vive la France!" cried the thousand "workers" assembled to greet De Gaulle as he plunged among them shaking hands...
With that, De Gaulle took off on a 6,200-mile swing through Russia that was less political than it was crowd pleasing. In Novosibirsk-"the Chicago of Siberia"-fully half of the city's 1,000,000 residents turned out to greet the French leader. Accompanied by Podgorny and Zorin, De Gaulle inspected power plants and electrical-equipment factories, then stalked through Akademgorodok, a seven-year-old academic city of 37,000, which gave him the opportunity to strike again on the anvil of Franco-Russian cultural rapprochement. "How can one forget," he said, "that the great academy...
...Business School also confirmed his distaste for what he calls "the comforts of repetitiousness." The U.S. Navy did the rest. After serving on a destroyer, Dietz was assigned to Admiral Nimitz's public relations staff on Guam. It was Dietz' job to greet officials visitors, such as Congressional delegations, and take them on tours of the island. When a delegation lost all its baggage, as one actually managed to do, Dietz was supposed to commiserate with the Congressman on their inability to dress for dinner with the Admiral...
During and after the crusade, Billy's associate evangelists will also conduct seminars for clergymen, advising them on how to receive and greet the new decision makers. An innovation for Graham crusades will be the use of closedcircuit television to broadcast the crusade to cities as far away as Glasgow and Edinburgh. All these techniques are designed to take dead aim on Britain's low rate (10%) of church attendance, on the huffy refusal of the average English cleric to proselytize, and on the acknowledged need of Graham's men to conserve the results of decisions...