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...Lady Fleming strode through Gijón's crowd last week, an old woman ran forward and spread two hand-worked silk shawls on the ground for her to walk...
...Cambodian village of Svay Rolom last week, a sarong-draped man stepped from his dugout canoe to the Tonle Bassac River's bank, strode purposefully into a cabin's hushed interior and stood solemnly before Svay Rolom's mekhum, the village chief. The citizen's purpose: to vote in Cambodia's first election since the end of French colonial rule...
...feelings. Nikita Khrushchev, under control again, switched from strong words to soft. One should bury memories of the past, he said, because vengeance is not a good adviser; there must be good relations between Russians and Germans. A cold correctness replaced the honest heat of emotion. When the delegates strode out of the palace that day, Adenauer's face was grim. So far the conference, said a German, had produced only "an open exchange of blows...
Then, grinning at the shrieks and whistles from the audience, Lillian strode to another microphone, picked up her trombone, and proceeded to blow monotone sounds through the brass tubing. The kids put front made such a hullabaloo, squealing, whistling and clapping in tempo, that they could not possibly hear anything more than the socking rhythm-but that was enough...
Roses on Wall Street. On the strength of all the rosy reports, the stock market, after a four-week pause to adjust itself to tightened credit (TIME, Aug. 29), bulled up again. Metals, railroads and building materials strode ahead, and the Dow-Jones industrial index closed the week at 463.70, a climb of more than 10 points for the week...