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Russia's touring farm experts, a surprise hit in the U.S.. got a decidedly mixed reception when their road show moved into Canada. Canadian government officials and farmers treated them courteously enough. But at airports and at hotel entrances, noisy groups of placard-carrying demonstrators, many of them immigrants who came to Canada as anti-Communist refugees after World War II, turned out to jeer and denounce the visitors...
...stood in Washington's crowded U.S. Department of Commerce Auditorium, 13-year-old Sandra Sloss of St. Joseph's School, Granite City, Ill. smoothed down her cotton dress, adjusted the numeral placard (No. 49) that hung around her neck, and decided that she didn't have a chance. The other 61 finalists, who had beaten out the 5,000,000 original contestants in the annual Scripps-Howard spelling bee, were obviously going to be too good. Nevertheless, as the warmup period began at 8:50 a.m., Sandra determined to do her best. She took one last look...
...platform were Communist Bosses Malenkov and Khrushchev and Marshals Bulganin and Voroshilov. Beside Molotov. under a placard proclaiming, in French and Russian. Franco-Russian friendship, sat French Communist Poet Louis Aragon. Blustered Molotov: "We shall not be caught napping by ratification of the Paris agreements ... If need be, the Soviet Union will demonstrate its right and the righteousness of our cause. The Soviet Union and the Chinese People's Republic and the People's Democracies have such manpower, and enjoy such support abroad, that there is no force in the world that could arrest our progress along...
...never seen so many women in my life," grumbled a veteran Boston Garden ticket taker as he watched a mass of sequinned bonnets and pink corsages seething through the entrance gates. Pushing a long blue feather out of his eye, he gazed at a red and white "Liberace" placard plastered over the announcement for the previous night's Bruins-Rangers game. "They sure do go for him, don't they," he mused...
...remaining headquarters are spread out across Boston, apparently hiding from one another. Murphy's office is at 10 State Street, but no placard or listing in the first floor directory mentions his room. The aging elevator man mumbled that "They'd get too many cranks coming in if they went around advertising the place," adding, "You aren't from Harvard...