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Sweet Sorrow. In Blackpool, England, Brian Winter was fined ?5 ($14) after he got into an argument with Gas Station Owner Ernest Wicks, slugged him on the head with a souvenir he had bought at a nearby shop-a stick of candy a yard long and four inches thick...
...among the lot of them, or a frown, when twelve visiting Russian farm officials showed up at the Department of Agriculture last week for an appointment with Secretary Ezra Taft Benson. Bald and effusive, Russia's Deputy Minister of Agriculture Vladimir Matskevich presented Benson with a couple of souvenir lacquered boxes, one of them showing a family of bears gamboling happily in a forest. Benson asked how to say "thank you" in Russian, said "spasibo," and handed Matskevich a 4-H Club tie-clip, a photograph of the Benson family and a book entitled Plant Diseases. Benson entertained...
...infantryman in the French army, Urruty went home to concentrate on pelota. By then he could whip all comers. Once one of his ardent admirers presented him with a big cigar. Deeply honored, Urruty returned the compliment. He gave his fan, Sir Winston Churchill, a chistera as a souvenir...
Everywhere the Russian farmers stopped to talk to children, kiss and play shyly with babies. Eying pretty farm girls, they nudged each other and giggled like schoolboys. They played rustic jokes on newsmen and on each other, passed out hundreds of green-and-gold souvenir medals from the Moscow agricultural fair...
...There is no question as to the Senator's actions, and I suggest that the Committee include these pages in the record as a permanent souvenir for connoisseurs of this dubious practice," he said. Appended to the statement was the section of the Galbraith pamphlet "Beyond the Marshall Plan" on which the Indiana senator based his accusations...