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...time Gorbachev's jetliner touched down at Paris' Orly Airport, any damage to his composure was long forgotten. After the General Secretary and his wife strode down the gangway onto the red carpet, they were greeted by President Mitterrand. Gorbachev reviewed an honor guard, then sped off for the center of Paris in a 20-car cavalcade surrounded by 50 motorcycle police. Along his way, the Champs Elysees had been decked out with red hammer-and- sickle flags beside the French Tricolor...
...next day a young man wearing a business suit and carrying a briefcase strode past the gate guard, waved and heaved a silent sigh. He had made it! "It was my father's briefcase," Spielberg says. "There was nothing in it but a sandwich and two candy bars. So every day that summer I went in my suit and hung out with directors and writers and editors and dubbers. I found an office that wasn't being used, and became a squatter. I went to a camera store, bought some plastic name titles and put my name in the building...
Clint Eastwood strode down the steps of the Palais des Festivals, and the townsfolk swooned as if a god had descended to earth. Another Hollywood deity ambled onto the Palais stage, heard himself introduced as "Mon General James Stewart" and watched a couple of thousand people in evening clothes stand up to cheer and salute. Earlier, gallant as always, Stewart had served as foil for June Allyson's sparkle at a press conference celebrating the screening of their 1954 film The Glenn Miller Story. Cher, the star of Mask, impressed everyone by winning a prize for best actress and, earlier...
Finally, after the White Sox batted in the top of the first, Seaver strode across right field to the mound...
Before long the procession became a protest march, and the protest a confrontation. As up to 4,000 demonstrators strode along the highway between Langa and the white town of Uitenhage, their path was blocked by 19 policemen. Through a loudspeaker, the young lieutenant in charge of the patrol, Johannes Fourie, told the protesters to go home. They continued to push forward. A policeman fired a warning shot at the feet of the group's leaders. Still they advanced. With that, Fourie ordered the police to open fire on the marchers. At least 19 blacks were killed...