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...stretcher cases were taken by helicopter to the advance base at Munsan, where a mobile surgical hospital had been erected; the walking patients went by ambulance. The first man to reach Munsan was Pfc. Robert Stell, a Baltimore Negro. General Mark Clark, who was waiting at Munsan to greet the returnees, saluted Stell and made a move to adjust his robe, but a medic beat the general to it. After medical and intelligence processing, the men were offered cigarettes, Cokes, milk shakes, steak. Some found steak too rich for them...
...Spandau prison in East Berlin, the commander of the Russian guard pulled off his glove to greet his U.S. counterpart with the barehanded grip of friendship...
Conant, who is staying at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, will be on hand to greet Adenauer when the Chancellor and his party at New York today...
...made a quick change, got out on the course in matter of minutes. On hand to greet him at the first tee was his favorite caddy, Willie Perteet. Ike calls Willie "Cemetery," a refinement on his usual nickname, "Dead Man." (In 1932 Willie was cut up so badly in a brawl that a doctor pronounced him dead.) With Willie in tow, the President set off over the course, striding along briskly, as he habitually does while golfing. He got in seven holes before dusk...
Before the open, thatched voodoo altar, a hundred black friends crowded to greet him. With practiced authority, he poured rum libations and muttered Creole incantations, then genially beat drums and rattled gourds, joined in the shuffling and shimmying around the sacred poteau (post). As the dancing grew more boisterous, women screamed, thrashed, moaned, kicked, bounced bonelessly and collapsed -"possessed" by the loa (god) of the night. Though no loa "mounted" him, Doc Reser danced, drummed and drank happily till dawn...