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Outwardly, the President of the U.S. seemed his usual active self. Returning from Europe, he made his television report to the nation, kept a campaign pledge to greet the senior class of the Tomah, Wis., high school at the White House, addressed graduating midshipmen at Annapolis, spoke to editors of United Press International, and entertained the French Congo Republic's President Fulbert Youlou, who came with a huge pair of elephant tusks as gifts. But all the while, John Kennedy was in considerable pain with a back injury-and at week's end he was on crutches...
...back into Moscow like a man who felt he had carried off all the marbles. "That tireless herald of friendship and cooperation among nations," as Pravda called him, had not been so gay since he gave up heavy drinking. Flying direct from Vienna, he arrived just in time to greet Indonesia's wide-roaming President Sukarno, whom he presented with a car and a six-foot bronze statue of a Soviet sportswoman. Next night Khrushchev brought all the top Soviet brass to Sukarno's 60th birthday party, held on the lawn of the Indonesian embassy...
...disconnected his oxygen hose, loosened belts that held his body to the contour couch. The landing in the Atlantic was soft. For a few mo ments the capsule lay on its side with one porthole under water. Slowly it righted itself, and Commander Shepard opened the door to greet the rescue helicopter...
After settling briefly into "The King's Chamber"?a Louis XVI bedroom paneled in blue-grey silk?Kennedy drove to the Elysee Palace for the first of his formal talks with De Gaulle. France's President walked stiffly outside to greet his visitor. He paused impatiently for photographers, then guided Kennedy toward his second-floor office for the work at hand. The two men settled down in armchairs behind windows overlooking a superbly manicured lawn; between the chairs was a glass table, holding French and American cigarettes. (De Gaulle neither smokes nor likes others to indulge in his office...
...Russian war memorial in Schwarzenbergplatz, stood with bared head bowed for nearly five minutes before the marble column. Then, just after 10, Kennedy and his advisers drove up to the grey, stuccoed Soviet embassy for a lunch and final matching of wits on nuclear testing, disarmament and Berlin. "I greet you on a small piece of our Soviet territory," said Khrushchev to his guest. "Sometimes we drink out of a small glass, but we speak with great feeling." Answered Kennedy: "I'm glad to hear this...