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Paris Song Festival -Maurice Chevalier introduces birthday song. Student Week (recreation of the medieval St. Germain Fair). Festival Of the Boats of Yesterday and Today with night pageants on the Seine. Midnight Bicycle Race through the Streets of Paris. Féte Of Place Vendome: a week of celebration in this famous square. Grand Concert in the Louvre courtyard with 2 great symphony orchestras and the coronation music of Louis XIV on original trumpets. Citywide Flower Contest with all the balconies of Paris florally decorated. Rabelais Fair in all its ancient splendour in the markets of Paris. Montparnasse Week. Studios...
...faith is summed up in a speech from The Lady-a. joyful Te Deum asserted against his century's sad Nunc Dimittis...
Then the Pope intones the Te Deum of thanksgiving, while St. Peter's big bell sets all the bells of Rome's 400 churches to ringing. At the Pontifical Mass in the Basilica of St. Peter's, which ends the ceremony, the Epistle (the Book of Judith, 13:23) begins: "Blessed art thou, O daughter, by the Lord the most high God, above all women upon the earth . . . Because He hath so magnified thy name this day, that thy praise shall not depart out of the mouth...
...suspected that Harry Truman had talked him out of his conviction that Chiang Kai-shek should be shored up and Formosa defended against the Chinese Communists. No one who knew Harry Truman had any idea whether the eloquent MacArthur had persuaded his Commander in Chief, in their tête-à-tête on Wake, that he had better face the fact: Formosa must be kept out of the hands of China's Red masters...
Festooned with colored lights and filled with little tables & chairs, the ordinarily bare parade ground of Port-au-Prince's broad Champs-de-Mars wore the air of a fête champêtre. While bands blared meringues through the soft tropical night, 15,000 happy Haitians downed free rice, beans, griots (fried pork), and heady island rum. Nearby cinemas and bars offered free movies and more free drinks. From time to time loudspeakers broadcast polite speeches by politicians suggesting that the picnickers might vote for Colonel Paul Magloire for President...