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...arrived at Washington's Union Station to leave for Independence six hours after the inauguration he was greeted by a cheering crowd so heavy that he had trouble getting to his train. ("Make way for the President," boomed the public address system.) When the strains of Auld Lang Syne had died away, Harry Truman made his farewell to Washington. "In all my political career I have never had anything like this," said he. "I'll never forget it if I live to be a hundred, and that's just what I expect...
...familiar strains of Auld Lang Syne swelled up from a sprawling cluster of tiny coral islands in the Indian Ocean last week, but the singers were not celebrating the New Year; they were merely singing their own national anthem. After years of autocratic rule under Sultans known as the Golden Feet,* the Maldive (rhymes with small hive) Islands had just become the world's newest republic. Queen Elizabeth herself sent the Moslem islanders a message from another island, wishing them "good luck, fair winds and calm waters." A British cruiser stood by to fire a salute, and thousands...
Auld Lang Syne. In Charleston, S.C., when Mailman James Brawley retired after 46 years of service, his fellow carriers presented him with a mailbox...
...salute. The farewells were brief and brisk, and, when MacArthur had gripped the last hand, he climbed slowly up the steps to his Constellation, the Bataan. His wife and 13-year-old son Arthur were already aboard. At 7:23 a.m., while the band played Auld Lang Syne, the Bataan roared off into the murky overcast, bound for home...
...Year's Eve, laughing crowds in London's Piccadilly Circus, restored to its prewar dazzle only 18 months ago, gave a full-throated rendition of Auld Lang Syne. The New Year did not stay welcome for long. Last week, with housewives grousing over the latest cut in the meat ration (eight ounces to four ounces weekly), Piccadilly's neon lights were doused by a coal shortage...