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...reforms would soon reach them. On the first day, some 5,000 people packed the cobblestone streets in front of Hradcany Castle overlooking the Old Town of Prague to greet the fedora-wearing Soviet leader and his wife Raisa. Similarly warm groups met them as they dashed through a hectic schedule -- talks with officials, visits to the opera and a Soviet war memorial, and campaign-like walkabouts featuring handshaking, chatting and baby kissing. After two days in Prague, Gorbachev went on to Bratislava, Czechoslovakia's second largest city and the capital of Slovakia...
...ballroom of Washington's Westin Hotel. They proceeded to rewrite the summer flight schedules at sorely congested airports serving five major cities: Chicago, Philadelphia, Newark, Dallas and Atlanta. At Newark airport, for example, the airlines moved 13 of the 57 scheduled arrivals and departures out of the hectic 6 p.m.-to-7 p.m. time slot. Atlanta's notoriously busy Hartsfield Airport will benefit from a total of 203 schedule changes...
...things like my ex-boyfriend and the stress of mid-terms, my reading was concluded. He wished me fuck in "dealing" and I thanked him as I exited the apartment and stepped back into the elevator, leaving the smell of incense and the calm of herbal tea for the hectic bustle of the Square...
...charismatic churches, worshipers occasionally experience faith healings and speaking in tongues (glossolalia). Despite his hectic schedule on the National Security Council, North always tried to find time for his faith. He attended Sunday services at the Church of the Apostles and participated in Bible studies at the monthly men's fellowship meetings. "He wasn't a celebrity," Mumford recalls. "He was there to worship just like the rest...
...winter of 1986 I passed through La Guardia Airport while on a hectic recital tour of the U.S. In the waiting area was a table loaded with anti- Soviet literature, a sort of monument to the cold war. Above the table was a sign: IF YOU ARE AGAINST THE ARMS RACE, YOU HAD BETTER STUDY RUSSIAN. I decided to have a chat with the two cheerful gentlemen who sat sipping soft drinks at the table. I wanted to find out why an American should study the language of Pushkin and Pasternak only if he felt threatened by a Soviet invasion...