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...glared at the committee, and proceeded to read an order and citation awarding him the Distinguished Service Cross for parachuting into Yugoslavia. When he had finished, there were some hisses from the audience. Wuchinich turned, shook his fist and shouted, "That's me, ladies and gentlemen, and you schoolchildren, too! Look good, that...
...French cuffs on his monogrammed English shirt and set out to make friends high & low. He always got to his office at 8 a.m. He traveled to villages where no American had ever been seen before, delivered speeches in good Spanish before civic groups, labor unions and schoolchildren at the rate of two a week."He has dedicated more sewers, slaughterhouses and clinics than a half-dozen politicians," wrote one admiring Salvadoran newspaperman. Once, when he turned up at a dinner celebrating the opening of a library in dusty Suchitoto (pop. 10,619), he called in the cook, asked...
Some fifty women of assorted ages had been waiting all day at Boston's Logan Airport. When the plane landed, the women, joined by reporters, photographers, bystanders and a parcel of schoolchildren touring the airport, broke through the barriers and streamed out toward the blue-trimmed DC-3. On the plane's side was the neatly printed legend CAPTAIN ARTHUR GODFREY. Pilot Godfrey promptly took off again, leaving his flock of fans in a cloud of dust, propwash and indignation. Half an hour later he made another landing, taxied away from the crowd to the distant control tower...
Suddenly, with a roar, Aso exploded. Huge, white-hot boulders and great clouds of glowing ash erupted from the cone. Shikura and son, who had been eating lunch on the outer edge of the big crater, tried to run down the slope. So did some of the panicked schoolchildren. They should have run the other way. Stones and ash cleared the farmland on the crater floor, spattered on the rim and outer slope...
...shadow of Los Alamos, the birthplace of the atomic bomb." She was not writing to open old scars, continued Art Supervisor Susan B. Anderson, but to bring about better understanding between the two cities. One way to understanding, she thought, was through the eyes of children: why not let schoolchildren of Hiroshima and Santa Fe exchange paintings of the life around them...