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...Torrents. Later the words came, torrents of them. But only two were really needed. A Greek-born barber said them in his Times Square shop: "I cry." A woman said them in another way on London's Strand: "My God!" Jacqueline Kennedy said them as her husband pitched forward, dying: "Oh no!" A Roman Catholic priest said them with irrevocable finality outside the Dallas hospital where he had just administered the last rites to John Fitzgerald Kennedy: "He's dead." When it happened, Teddy Kennedy was sitting in the presiding officer's chair of the Senate, and Bobby was lunching...
Outward, for centuries, flowed the tide of British Empire; back, in hurried decades, it ebbed. On every foreign strand that it touched, the receding tide has left a church uniquely English, yet catholic enough to survive in any climate. It is grand and symbolic that as a typical consequence, there should be in the South Pacific a bishop who follows the ancient Church of England custom by styling himself Norman New Zealand. Empire is gone; the church remains...
...such an enormously complicated, 24-hour a day business work, Hilton has surrounded himself with a team of crack operating people. In terms of authority, the No. 2 man in the Hilton chain is astute and ambitious Robert J. Caverly, 44, who watches over all operations. General Manager Curt Strand, 42, is the boss of the international division. Chicago Financier Henry Crown, who is worth $500 million himself and has interests in everything from General Dynamics to the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad, has been a close Hilton associate ever since he joined him in buying the Palmer House...
...societies. Last week, while visiting Aachen, the city where he made his mark in the Kaiser's Germany, the old professor died of a heart attack. He was 81. He had lived with aviation since its infancy and had woven the bright thread of his thought through every strand of its history...
...cavernous Shell-Mex House on London's Strand, Boyd faced representatives of 15 foreign governments, including Germany, France and Italy. Only Canada was on the U.S. side. The others suggested that if the U.S. would go along with the fare rise, they would support a full review of all fares. Boyd was not budging. At week's end, after three days of negotiations, Boyd's opponents backed down temporarily, offered to extend the truce to May 15. But nothing was solved yet. A British official told a reporter: "We will tell...