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...Palace, hosing dust and soot from the drooping needles. The harbor itself, and the once limpid Sumida River where warrior-poets repaired, are now thick with wastes-both human and industrial. Yet there is scarcely a resident of Tokyo who could not compose a stately, sympathetic waka in the shade of his humble eaves...
Less tolerant of exercise, the newsmen peeled off sweat-soaked jackets or dropped out under shade trees as Lyndon marched on. The Death March ended only after 15 laps, nearly four miles and 95 minutes. "I'm goin' to give you a medal," Lyndon told the ladies who had been along, and he handed them newly struck medals li in. in diameter and bearing his likeness...
...President headed for the L.B.J. Ranch with Humphrey, got in some handshaking at the Bergstrom Air Force Base near Austin, Texas, was guest of honor at a birthday barbecue for 3,000 at nearby Stonewall. He also aimed to do some campaign strategy-planning with Hubert "in the shade of the live oaks on the banks of the Pedernales...
...than ever before, the faces around the oval table at this year's Commonwealth Prime Ministers' meeting reflected the divergent interests and cultures represented in the network of free nations that has evolved from the British Empire: only five were white, and the other 13 represented every shade of skin from ivory-yellow through burnt umber to the blue-black of Africa's heartland...
...worth of business right on deck. Australia's enterprising businessmen miss few opportunities to mold their exports to their customers' specific habits and needs: in a wily and woolly coup in Thailand, they recently landed a large order for plastic sneakers by producing them in a shade of orange that matched the robes worn by the country's innumerable Buddhist monks...