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...moved triumphantly across Europe in what at times resembled a royal progress, wearing his familiar brown tunic, white churidar trousers and the inevitable red rose. Consulted at every turn with much the mixture of deference and bewilderment once accorded the Delphic oracle, the Indian Prime Minister reacted with a purr of self-satisfaction so audible that in Hamburg (where he accepted two honorary degrees) he felt obliged to explain. "When people ask me why I am so pleased with myself," said he, "I tell them: because I have always done exactly what I wanted to regardless of consequences...
...warm, late-autumn sun shone down on the cemetery. The last notes of the Star-Spangled Banner floated up from the tomb, mingling with the faint purr of a jet airplane, invisible in the sky above. Facing the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and the panorama of Washington beyond it stood a white-haired old man in a black Chesterfield coat. His face was pink, and in his right hand he held a black felt hat over his heart. As the anthem ended, Herbert Hoover, 81, stepped forward to meet an Army sergeant holding a large wreath of yellow chrysanthemums...
...utmost respectability apart. Throughout the evening, they offer slightly grander and more empedestaled versions of their time-honored selves; and by now, indeed, Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt are much less actors than roles. Now, once again, they manifest their uniqueness. She provides a heraldic squeal or purr; he drops to a sudden flawless guttural pianissimo; each not merely throws away a line, but throws it, with a double backward flip, over an exiting left shoulder...
...enormous, aged anchors from a Norfolk junk yard, fastened cable lines to them and dropped them a quarter-mile out at sea. The other ends of the cable were fastened to the Babun's freshly oiled winches. One morning the Babun's twin diesel motors began to purr, her winches started to wind, and the big pull was on. The next morning the Babun was floating free and riding out a vicious northeaster. It was the most successful salvage operation in the history of Cape Hatteras...
...McCarthy said that there was no need for Knowland to "become so excited"; Everett Dirksen was quick to purr that he had "no desire to see the letter." But McCarthy needled on. Didn't Knowland think something should be done to check further on Gibson's position? Said an exasperated Knowland: "When a letter comes to the Senate from the Department of State, from a responsible officer of that department, I do not want to have to call in a handwriting expert to determine whether a forgery has been committed. If we have so destroyed confidence...