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During the flight to Cairo aboard a chartered KLM DC-7, Chou stripped down to long underwear for a seven-hour sleep, wolfed hearty portions of Russian caviar before landing. Though Egyptian authorities provided an enthusiastic crowd to greet the Chinese Premier, the official welcome was somewhat restrained. President Nasser-in Tunisia to attend ceremonies marking France's withdrawal from the Bizerte naval base when Chou arrived-got back to Cairo in time to give a lavish banquet at Abdin Palace. He presented Red China's premier with Egypt's highest decoration-the Collar of the Nile...
...Blues of Columbia won this seven-hour round robin elimination tournament. Thirty-nine teams took part in the contest sponsored by the New York Rugby Club and played each year over the Thanksgiving holiday in New York...
...stood Gagarin, the pocket-sized Soviet hero, on the reviewing stand with Castro, who towers over him. There, below, were the cheering masses, the enormous pictures of Lenin and Khrushchev. The expected display of half a dozen Soviet MIG-17 jets thundered overhead on schedule. There was even a seven-hour gymkhana in Civic Square by 70,000 massed "athletes...
...spread the available work when unemployment runs high, unions and management have tried a number of ideas: seven-hour days, four-day weeks, summer plant shutdowns, and earlier retirement for older workers. Now drugmaking Parke, Davis & Co. and Local 11-176 of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union are trying out another form of share-the-work. Some 450 women workers at the company's Detroit plant have volunteered to take one or two weeks of vacation without pay in order to assure more work for the others. Though the A.F.L.-C.I.O. frowns upon what it calls...
...Bavarian pageant, pilgrims 'crowded into Bavaria in Peugeots, Rolls-Royces, light aircraft, bikes and buses. As the play went on and on and on, lids closed over once reverent eyes: what everyone had come to see-from seats of softest oak-was nothing less than DeMille squared, a seven-hour pseudo-Biblical presentation with a cast of 1,600 painful amateurs. As a Variety headline cried...