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Marshall shook hands all around, chatted a bit, thanked T.V. for his basket of Formosan shaddock and pomelo (akin to grapefruit), urged everyone not to wait in the chill damp outdoors. For a few moments he stood alone by the ramp; he seemed a trifle impatient because the Gimo and Madame were late...
Then the Gimo, his nose red in the cold, saluted and haoed. They trailed Marshall up the ramp into the plane for final words. As they emerged the Gimo almost brushed off his military cap against the hatch top; he caught it in time and came down smiling. The hatch door slammed; 49149 rolled away. As it lifted into the air, with the snow-dusted purple mountain as a backdrop, the last one to wave adieu was Ambassador Stuart...
...Army C-54 Crescent Caravan swooped down on Washington's National Airport, a picked escort of 50 white-gloved soldiers snapped to attention. Down a long steel ramp came the flag-draped coffins of five U.S. airmen, past an honor guard at present arms. Five hearses were waiting. From a common burial ground in the mountain village of Koprivnik, the U.S. flyers shot down over Tito's Yugoslavia (TIME, Sept. 2) had come back to the U.S. They were taken to a chapel at Arlington Cemetery to await final funeral services later this month...
...wrack of a June cloudburst, the "Sacred Cow" swooped down onto Orly airport near Paris. As Jimmy Byrnes led his party down the ramp, he looked his 68 years. He was here for Paris II-the third attempt of the Big Four's foreign ministers to lay a basis for World War II peace treaties, and the look on his face said "three times...