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...French Red Cross helicopter clattered out of a slate-grey sky, and put down at Dienbienphu. Two khaki-clad officers and an angular French civilian stepped gingerly down to the muddy, shell-torn airstrip, and a Communist liaison officer came forward to greet them. "You are one hour ahead of schedule, messieurs," said the Communist. "You should know that our Democratic Republic's time is one hour behind your own. Now, if you will please follow me." The French had come back to Dienbienphu to settle terms for evacuating their 1,500 wounded, as vouchsafed by the Communists...
Ride to Buckingham. Every whistle in London Harbor let loose a blast as she stepped ashore to the roar of a 41-gun salute, to be greeted by members of her own family and by government officials headed by beaming Sir Winston Churchill, who bowed to the Queen and her husband and shook hands gravely with the five-year-old Duke of Cornwall. It was the gallant old Prime Minister's second official greeting. By special invitation he had spent the previous night on the royal yacht, and scurried home in the morning to change from his Trinity House...
...Nazis, Bidault was chosen to replace him as chief of the Resistance. The Gestapo marked him for torture and death, frequently came close to catching him. But it was Georges Bidault who gave the signal for Paris' rise against the occupiers in 1944, and who was there to greet General Charles de Gaulle on his triumphal return with the Franco-American Liberation forces...
...downtown Loop district have long since turned into slums. Last week a group of Chicago business men announced a bold plan to cure this costly civic sore. The plan: spend $400 million in the next seven years to demolish the cheap hotels, rooming houses and honky-tonks that greet visitors approaching Chicago's thriving Loop, replace them with a cluster of new buildings and parks...
When it was all over, Diva Milanov retired to her dressing room to munch an apple and then greet 100 or so admirers in relays of five. By 1 a.m. she was exhausted, but happily planning four more Normas in what is left of the season...