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...ascended the rostrum to the accompaniment of Sailing the Seas Depends on the Helmsman-roughly, China's version of Hail to the Chief and a song that heretofore had been played only in Mao's honor. Significantly, the new helmsman was dressed in full military uniform, as were almost one-third of the other officials on the reviewing stand-a clear sign of the army's importance as the guarantor of the new leadership. Hua did not speak during the coronation-type ceremony, leaving the keynote task to Peking's mayor, Wu Teh, who assured...
Members of the well-dressed, martinisipping group applauded sympathetically when Robertson said he had worked hard and had no regrets. After he finished speaking a four-piece Dixie band struck up a rendition of "He's A Jolly Good Fellow" and "Hail, Hail The Gang's All Here...
Everywhere, criticism of the Carter campaign was falling like hail. In Ohio, Democratic State Chairman Paul Tipps was disgusted because no Carter aide had sought his help. In California, State Chairman Charles Manatt said he had never before seen a campaign in which the candidate's agents shut out everybody else. In Illinois, Mayor Richard Daley had twice warned Carter that the campaign was going down the drain -unless he reached out more to the party regulars around the country. These professionals thought they understood the reasons for Carter's separation from the party. His campaign hallmark...
They had toted along bread and an assortment of glass and plastic bottles for drink. The water on board was rancid, and the bottles needed refilling. As we pulled into a station, the woman urged her husband, "Hail someone outside, they won't refuse." Nervously, he wedged his shoulders over the pane and called "Eh, Compatriot...
...state at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He packed the university's 14,000-seat Crisler Arena. Speaking from a platform dwarfed by a huge maize-colored M on a field of blue, he was introduced by a band that shifted neatly from the school song "Hail to the victors" to Hail to the Chief. Ford retained his composure as a group of hecklers booed parts of his speech and he flinched but barely missed a verbal beat as a cherry bomb went off in the stands...