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...noon on Monday, May 7, millions had heard the news, but the Allied governments still refused to confirm the story, apparently because of a Soviet request for a delay until a formal surrender in Berlin could be arranged. Several hundred thousand people milled around for five hours in New York's Times Square, sober, uncertain whether to celebrate or not. Ticker tape fluttered through the air, then stopped. Finally Mayor Fiorello La Guardia bellowed through a loudspeaker, "Go home ... or return to your jobs...
...Ninety thousand came to JFK, 72,000 to Wembley. More than a billion people, including those in the Soviet Union, could have tuned in on live satellite broadcasts to watch over 60 of the world's most prominent rock acts. All together, this dream was called Live Aid. The breadth and heart of it were great...
...have such an ability to move the boat consistently,” Buckland said. “I think we were only one second slower in the second thousand meters than the first one thousand, so we just had great consistency throughout the race...
...took us a thousand meters to realize that we were good enough to beat Brown, but once we did, the race was over,” Ulrich said...
...just went out there knowing that each stroke is important,” Durkin said. “We didn’t have a particular move to overtake them we just worked to come back into them after they went up a length in the first thousand...