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...peacetime. Of highly personal pleasure to Commander Anderson was a private ceremony in which he presented a piece of polar ice, brought back in the Nautilus' freezer, to his old boss, Rickover. The admiral's gaunt face creased into childlike smiles of delight as he examined the memento ("that piece of ice meant more to him than all the rank . . . and fame that have been showered upon him"). In its way, it was a not unfitting symbolic link in man's chain of progress from the ice age to the undersea conquest of the ice-girt Pole...
...Queen Elizabeth II there were white flowers on the breakfast table and a jeweled memento, as without fanfare she and Prince Philip celebrated their eleventh wedding anniversary...
...week's end to reboard Nautilus and take her into harbor at Portland, England, he left behind with President Eisenhower the letter he had written in longhand at the big moment. "Dear Mr. President," it read. "I hope, sir, that you will accept this letter as a memento of a voyage of importance to the United States. Signed at the North Pole at 2315 EDST...
...Howard Taubman, the Russians stopped the show with a spontaneous outburst. At the final curtain, they gave him a standing ovation. Warren is scheduled to appear in recitals in Leningrad, to do Rigoletto in Kiev, and to sing lago in Otello in Riga. He has already left a lasting memento of his visit: the Russians have copied the sheet music of one of his most popular recital numbers: Colorado Trail...
Campton's A Smell of Burning and Memento Mori diverge from realism to comic fantasy. They are short and slight in form, and amiably gruesome in tone. Both are clever jobs, but each is composed of one joke, not a very funny joke at that, spun out far too thinly...