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...first hour of Celebration, many students stood by posters, graphs and experiments from classes this summer...
...easy to forget myself, history major that I am, and fall into the thinking that it’s 1954, and not decades later. When a visitor in either time caught eye of a black polished sedan surrounded by 20-or-so motorcycles flashing lights, they stood at attention, for it was he!—either Her Majesty’s Governor-General or the Tanzanian President and Commander-in-Chief. Those described in ever so many Rudyard Kipling works—at that time genuflecting and making oblations to Her Majesty’s governor?...
...B.O.B." HANDWRITTEN NOTE found on an airsickness bag during a United Airlines flight bound for Los Angeles from Sydney, prompting a bomb scare and an emergency return to the airport. The letters probably stood for "Best on Board," a reference to the most attractive passenger, rather than "Bomb on Board" as was feared by the crew...
...speech, shouting “Boooooring!” before quickly adding that he was only trying to portray what he thought the audience’s reaction would be. But Triumph, who has based much of his act on picking fights with flesh-and-blood celebrities, said he stood by the candidate...
...wind is numbing and this is painstaking work - not normally the boy's forte. But Josh is content. This place thrills him. Bruce Church has nearly 60 years on Josh, but his feelings for the ground are much the same. Eighteen months ago, adhering to club policy, Church stood down as M.C.C. president when he turned 72. That wound up nearly 25 years' service for the club, and colleagues figured they wouldn't see him anymore. But before long Church was back in his red, white and blue M.C.C. blazer as a volunteer tour guide, showing customers around the stadium...