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...countrymen. One ebullient newsman described him as having "a kind Russian face, with eyes well separated." Another, who interviewed Gagarin soon after landing, seemed so dazzled by the new national hero that he wrote: "His eyes were shining as though still reflecting spatial starlight." A nationwide hookup broadcast a telephone conversation between "Gaga," as the Soviet public promptly nicknamed him, and Premier Khrushchev, who was vacationing on the Black...
...tone of the new union was moderate. Speech after speech urged caution in dealings with the Communist bloc, and plans were made for a hookup with Europe's six-nation Common Market. As their next step, the conferees decided to seek some kind of affiliation with huge Nigeria and rubber-rich Liberia. If this came off, West Africa would have a powerful counterweight to the noisy, elbowing radicals of Ghana and Guinea...
...Tears. "Long Live the King, Long Live the Queen," roared the throngs as Baudouin and his bride went to the throne room of the Palace of Brussels for the civil-marriage ceremony prescribed by Belgian law. An estimated 150 million watched the pageant on a Europe-wide TV hookup. Fabiola was nervous. When the 20-foot train of her mink-trimmed wedding gown (designed by Balenciaga and executed in his own Madrid apartment with all the secrecy of a new-car prototype in Detroit) caught on a chair, she came close to tears. Proud and protective in his lieutenant general...
Three-Way Hookup. That evening, accompanied by his Air Force aide and one Secret Service agent, Nixon flew to New York on Eastern Air Lines' Flight 510.* After dinner (lamb chops) at the Fifth Avenue apartment, Nixon plied Rockefeller with reasons why he ought to run for Vice President on the Nixon ticket. He described his plans for making the vice-presidency an even more important office than it came to be during the Eisenhower Administration...
During the last few hours of the conference, Nixon and Rockefeller spent a lot of the time talking with Chuck Percy in Chicago on a three-way conference hookup, filling him in on what changes in the platform would be called for by the Nixon-Rockefeller statements. Then, in the last half-hour, Nixon went over the Rockefeller statement, suggested some changes, finally approved...