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...Segni's first acts was to greet the wandering minstrel of neutralism. Jawaharlal Nehru, and to put him straight on one point. "We in Italy," said Segni coolly, "are all for the Atlantic pact...
Asia's second most successful Communist intriguer, Ho Chi Minh. flew into Peking to see the No. 1 in his business, Mao Tse-tung. As a special honor, No. 1 himself went down to the airport to greet wisp-whiskered Ho, a gesture Mao had not bestowed on such other arriving VIPs as India's Nehru, Britain's Attlee, the U.N.'s Dag Hammarskjold, or even Russia's Khrushchev and Bulganin. Ho and Mao, according to Peking radio, "embraced with great warmth...
...London, brigades of 60 to 80 cooks worked under the small, modest man with the shaggy white mustache and bright eyes, who wore a high, white chef's hat in the kitchen, changed to striped trousers and a Louis-Philippe dress coat to greet guests in the dining room...
...morning last fortnight, all these people marched out past their tumbledown cemetery to the green grass Pedro Juan Caballero airstrip. Soon, two silvery Douglas transports circled and landed, bringing Paraguayan President Alfredo Stroessner, U.S. Ambassador to Paraguay Arthur Ageton and other local and foreign dignitaries. Forward to greet them stepped Clarence Earl Johnson, a 6-ft, 200-lb. Texan in a white Stetson, faded blue jeans with pearl buttons, and cowhide boots...
...territory at the edge of Hong Kong, was running bank full. One afternoon, four U.S. Air Force officers sloshed through the muddy approach on the Communist side of the Sham Chun, splashed across the puddles on the bridge at Lo Wu and stepped into freedom. Among the first to greet them was Father Ambrosio Poletti, a Roman Catholic missionary based in Hong Kong, who offered them a pack of Lucky Strikes. Said Lieut. Colonel Edwin Heller, 36, of Wynnewood, Pa., as he lit up: "Gosh! Remember them...