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This week, after a ticker-tape welcome on lower Broadway and an honorary degree from Columbia University, the debonair salesman of South American democracy embarked on a rugged program of visits. After New York, González planned to see Philadelphia, the TVA, Texas' oilfields and New Orleans.
Arthur H. Motley, president of Parade Publication, Inc. set the "let's-be-realistic" tone of the meeting. The U.S. market, said he, "is rugged [and] competitive ... but it is a huge market and [you] have not even cracked the surface . . ."
Aged deputies such as Marcel Cachin (80), women members, and less resilient types, including tubby Party Secretary Jacques Duclos-all of whom usually sit in the front rows-moved to the rear. Their places were taken by young, rugged backbenchers from among the party's 183 Deputies. A dozen...
Under normal conditions, the Norwegians could outjump most of the rest of the world on one leg. In the first half of the two-part Nordic combined event (jumping and cross-country), they went about proving it. Norway took the first five places. The best mark: a formful, 223-ft...
Farmer William L. Booth, a stocky, rugged-looking man, had read the ad in the Farm Bureau magazine. It sounded good: "HOOSIER HAWAIIAN AIR-A-VAN: Away from home only 22 days, yet 18 full BIG days of Hawaiian enjoyment. Actually see and visit Pearl Harbor, Diamond Head, huge volcanoes...