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Five Hundred Prayers. Across the Tiber, the fourth river, Johnston recorded the welcome of liberated Rome. Pope Pius gave an audience to the Allied press, but what impressed Johnston were the shouts of the cameramen: "Hold it, Pope, we gotcha ..." A Scottish pipe band marched into St. Peter's Square, bent-in the words of the pipe major-on "gieing Popie a blaw." The Pope was delighted, says Orangeman Johnston, but "all the same, they might have picked on a more suitable tune than Lillibulero...
...Simenon is best known as the creator of pipe-smoking Inspector Maigret, the kindly, plodding and vaguely troubled French detective. But the keenest Simenon fans have long since stopped thinking of him as a mere mystery writer or even as a literary psychologist. To them he is a real novelist with a special view of life that is instantly conjured up in their minds by the simple mention of his name...
...ambassadors arrived in Geneva, Chou tested with his pitch pipe and sent forth the soft tone which has become so popular in the Kremlin. Said he to a Communist Party Congress in Peking: "The number of American civilians in China is small and their question can be easily settled . . . The Chinese people hope that the countries of Asia and the Pacific region, including the U.S., will sign a pact of collective peace...
...Shivers broke the sad news to Morrow: he had better resign. Morrow recalled what Shivers told him: "It's pure politics, Wright; I need Rayburn's help." Morrow stubbornly refused, and the governor hustled off to headquarters. In a Capitol Hill serving kitchen he smoked the peace pipe with Sam Rayburn and bloodless National Chairman Paul Butler. The sacrifice was coolly arranged...
...pipeline is the most costly and ambitious development project yet undertaken by the bustling Israelis. Starting in 1953, they laid 22,000 sections of concrete-lined steel pipe, each weighing ten tons, and built seven pumping stations and three large reservoirs. The U.S. sent technical aid, most of the tools, and almost all the $24,750,000 required for financing: $4,500,000 as a direct U.S. grant-in-aid, another $9,350,000 indirectly in counterpart funds, the remainder in private funds...