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...conservative princes tend to gather behind Budget-Balancer Feisal. Recently a dozen of them showed their feelings and snubbed the King by refusing to show up at the airport to greet him when he made a ceremonial visit to Jiddah. If the reforms come too swiftly-or if spending gets out of hand-Talal and Tariki could find themselves out and the Feisal crowd back in. The dilemma, according to one Saudi, is that "Feisal 'feels that reforms will topple the throne, while Talal feels that without them the throne will topple." But both are loyal to the King...
...Space Chimp and man." Whatever the reasons, it was Shepard who was chosen by National Aeronautics and Space Administration officials for the first, historic hop. Slayton and Cooper busied themselves with communications; Schirra and Carpenter flew jet chase planes over the range; Slayton and Grissom were on hand to greet their buddy at Grand Bahama Island; John Glenn was the back-up man and checked out the capsule...
Kasavubu's army commander. Major General Joseph Mobutu, flew in from Leopoldville and dropped by to greet Tshombe jauntily. "What's all the trouble?" he inquired pleasantly of the sullen prisoner, who sat sipping soda water as six of his Belgian aides were loaded into a plane and flown back to U.N. headquarters for questioning...
Gagarin arrived in a turboprop airliner escorted by a swarm of jet fighters. Along with his parents and Wife Valentina, the entire upper crust of the Soviet hierarchy was on hand to greet him. The nuzzling, the bear hug and the long kiss he got from Premier Khrushchev seemed even more active than Valentina's warm embrace. Other dignitaries greeted the cosmonaut in their turn. Then, in a column of flower-decked cars, the official party drove slowly toward Red Square and a 20-gun salute from Red artillerymen...
...crowd of 20--somewhat less than the 1000 expected--turned out at South Station to greet poet Kenneth Rexroth as he arrived in Boston for a reading sponsored by the Advocate...