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...Just walk through that door to the rear of the stage and wait for directions," said the round man at the side entrance of the Opera House as he checked our identification. Mr. Nordus, with a spray of flags across the lapel of his tails that made him look like a distinguished veteran of the Pacific campaign rather than the conductor of the Ballet Orchestra, stepped aside as we filed in. He was in the process of greeting Boston friends or relatives in a flurry of Danish, ending up with "I'll see you later...
...this week showed off its new models, on which it spent $300 million, the biggest styling and engineering changes in its history. The new cars, which will not be shown for sale until Oct. 30, are all lower, with a swept-back look that is climaxed by striking raised rear-fender fins. Hardtops and convertibles are as much as five inches lower, sedans down four inches; Plymouths and Dodges have been widened four inches to give them a bigger look. From Plymouth to Imperial, all sport new suspensions with torsion-bar springing on the front end. No word...
...next speaker was the State Committeewoman who was noting the price of food when applause was heard outside. The committeewoman went on. The audience turned to the rear of the hall as drums boomed in the corridor. She move closer to the microphone. Then the blaring band marched into the hall; she stepped back and stared at the wilting orchid on her shoulder...
...lost track of his subject only once: during a blinding New Jersey rainstorm, he became detached from the official caravan of long black limousines and began to trail another file of long black limousines until he discovered that he was bringing up the rear of a funeral procession...
...siding, and plowed head on into the mail train. One Pullman car, flung into the air by the force of the crash, dropped atop a dormitory car in which the Chief's dining-car employees were asleep; the next Pullman rammed into the crushed dormitory car from the rear. The toll: 20 dead, all of them Santa Fe employees; 35 injured, most of them passengers...