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...some 30 African heads of state. Never before had so many leaders of Africa sat down in the same place at the same time, and their proud host, the aging (70) Ethiopian Emperor, was out at the airport in person with his green-and-black Rolls-Royce to greet many of his illustrious guests, including Liberia's President William V. Shadrach Tubman, who arrived five days early so as to squeeze in a state visit...
Having spent so long on the back streets, gospel singers greet the establishment's new enthusiasm with a doubting, puzzled Wha? Many of them have been working as rhythm-and-blues singers, and now they can be in the new groove merely by singing the remembered songs of their childhood choir-loft days. But even with all the corporate delight at the new groove's financial prospects, the cheerful, sensate piety of the music had already begun to sound like its own requiem by the end of the first week of official enthusiasm. Gospel music is the last...
...show include Rachel Verney, a forty-year old woman, her son and daughter, isolated for five years on a farm that miraculously escaped nuclear poisoning, and a fisherman who visits periodically from another pocket of survivors. Except for the daughter (Anne Lilley Kerr) overwhelmed by sexual longing, these people greet the prospect of rescue with some ambivalence. Their misgivings are justified, it turns out, because the Americans who enter as saviors only want to head them into reservations for "contaminated persons...
Popovic was out at modern Surcin Airport to greet Rusk when the big U.S. jet touched down. Also on hand was a red carpet and a military band. But that was the end of the fanfare. Since the Yugoslavs do not unfurl foreign flags along the new autoput that leads from the airport to the city except for a visiting chief of state. Rusk's route was lined with blue-and-white Finnish banners in place for President Urho K. Kekkonen's arrival next day. There were no crowds at all, since the Yugoslavs did not bother...
More than 20 booths representing countries from Africa to Scandinavia, South America to the Orient, will greet visitors from noon to midnight on ISA's grounds. Arts and crafts from seven continents will be on display...