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...opening night, with the French interested in a film-exchange deal, the week got an impressive official sendoff. The plush Normandie Theater on the Champs Elysees was flanked by rows of Gardes Republicans in scarlet-trimmed uniforms. The band blared the Marseillaise and the Internationale, and into the theater flocked French and Russian officials with a cluster of bejeweled Soviet film stars who were long on furs and high on necklines...
Democrats not inclined to support Stevenson would resent his using the dinner for his personal sendoff. So he decided to announce just before the Democrats began to gather in Chicago...
Just before Darby left Washington, Ike's White House assistants gave him a rousing sendoff. During the party, Darby received a dummy copy of TIME with a picture of himself on the cover. Said the cover caption: "For Ike relief, for Chicago chaos." A few minutes later, a White House aide handed the correspondent a small envelope. It contained a warm personal farewell from Ike and Mamie. In a tongue-in-cheek postscript, the President stoutly denied that on Darby's departure there would be "For Ike relief, for Chicago chaos...
...polio season made history by its unique sendoff: the statisticians had scarcely begun feeding figures into their machines for the new disease year, beginning in April, when the Cutter vaccine incident broke, and it became clear that some of the Salk vaccine contained live virus. Almost at once the nation's total of polio cases hit an alltime high for the date (147 in the last week of April), and kept on doing so for six straight weeks. The cases among the children inoculated with Salk vaccine (mostly by Cutter) and among their contacts (a total of 422) were...
...ceremonial sendoff marked the official opening of Canada's newest major mining venture, Bethlehem Steel's open-pit operation at Marmora, Ont., which will provide jobs for some 270 residents of the industry-poor region. Trade and Commerce Minister C. D. Howe, in a speech at the ceremony, spotlighted another point of significance for Canada's fast-growing iron mining industry: "With the opening of Steep Rock in northwestern Ontario, the Quebec-Labrador mines, and this mine...