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...Friend is well worth seeing, and the Friday and Saturday sell-outs leave tonight as a last chance. Or almost as good, one of these balmy evenings stroll by the House, listen to the music, and watch them change sets through the Common room windows...
Once, before their final business meeting, Eisenhower and López Mateos strolled onto a hotel lawn where they were scheduled to meet informally with the hundreds of newsmen who were covering the trip. Somehow the stroll turned into a melee, as photographers and reporters milled in confusion all over the place, tripping, crowding, shoving...
...Window. That afternoon, in chill, gusty weather, he slipped out of the embassy unannounced for a two-hour, three-mile stroll. State Department security men had to hustle to catch up, and got several sharp jolts. Seemingly a stranger to red lights, Mikoyan blithely walked across streets against traffic, brought cars to a screaming halt. On Fifteenth Street, a block from the White House, a heavy gust toppled a street light a few feet from Mikoyan, showering glass splinters around...
Most memorable scene of the stroll: Mikoyan gazing into the window of a bookstore that was prominently displaying Boris Pasternak's banned-in-Russia Doctor Zhivago...
Giuseppe Fietta, 75, has a long career as a papal diplomat but often likes to stroll the streets of his north Italian home town of Ivrea and play boccie with his friends. He became nuncio to Haiti and the Dominican Republic in 1931, to Argentina from 1936 to 1953, when he returned to Rome as nuncio to Italy...