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Over Nob Hill and the Harvard Yard, across Washington's broad avenues and Pittsburgh's thrusting chimneys, in a thousand towns and villages the bells began to toll. In Caracas, Venezuela, a lone Marine sergeant strode across the lawn of the U.S. embassy while a soft rain fell, saluted the flag, then lowered it to half-mast. At U.S. bases from Korea to Germany, artillery pieces boomed out every half hour from dawn to dusk in a stately, protracted tattoo of grief...
...anyone talking about in Roccamena last week? Shakespeare, Brecht, Dante, Aeschylus, to name a few of the poets and playwrights whose works were featured in the town's first informal festival of the performing arts. Star performer was Movie Idol Vittorio Gassman, who for two straight nights strode a sidewalk "stage" illumined by car headlights while declaiming passages from Julius Caesar, The Divine Comedy and other works. Whatever they made of it, the Roccamenensi were an appreciative audience...
...stopped wide-eyed for a moment and looked incredulously at her. Then he seemed to catch his breath, and he began walking again, very rapidly, in a very straight line, head diving for shelter beween his shoulders. She shut her book efficiently and strode to the porch of the shack, taking its three steps in a single jump. She knocked...
...hangovers or relive their younger days of gridiron glory. They are plumbers, policemen, office workers, salesmen, doctors, teachers-in their 20s, 30s or even their 40s. A very few hope to catch the eye of a scout and follow in the footsteps of Baltimore Quarterback Johnny Unitas, who strode straight from a sandlot into the pros. But most are onetime high school and college players with no illusions. They play for the earthy satisfaction of throwing a crumpling block or making a bone-crushing tackle...
...here to greet anybody," snapped New York City's official greeter. Public Events Commissioner Richard C. Patterson Jr., as he strode past a clutch of curious newsmen in the lobby of Manhattan's Barclay Hotel one morning last week. "I'm just here to see that the lady has sufficient police protection." The lady-South Viet Nam's Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu-coolly assured Patterson that her protection was just fine. Besides, she added, "God is in my corner...