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...special passion for clarinet and sax. Last week King Bhumibol Adulyadej (pronounced Poom-i-pon A-dool-ya-date), who looks half his age, and his almond-eyed Queen Sirikit, who looks like mandolins sound, landed in Manhattan on their four-week swing through the U.S. And all the ticker-tape parade, the ride in the subway, the view from the Empire State Building faded into nothing when His Majesty went to dinner with the King of Swing Benny Goodman (and 94 others) at the suburban estate of New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller...
...lower Broadway, shredded phone books and chopped newsprint spewed from high windows that opened over the motorcade. At city hall, the Army band shook the ticker tape from its tubas and blew a manful Marseillaise, while the trip hammers of nearby street wreckers and a 21-gun salute shattered the Manhattan noon. To France's visiting President Charles de Gaulle, it must have seemed as if New York City had emptied its wastebaskets on his head and blown up the seat of government by way of greeting...
...Francisco added clusters of balloons to ticker tape, as citizens turned out in numbers that Chief of Police Thomas Cahill said hadn't been matched in 30 years. De Gaulle stood upright in a pale-blue convertible, chopping the air in two-handed greeting and murmuring "Merci, merci" as he bobbed his head from side to side. His aides had to brush off the confetti as he pulled up at the city hall for the Marseillaise and a word from Mayor George Christopher. Returning from a chilly tour of San Francisco Bay aboard a Coast Guard gunboat...
...time Riesel hung up the telephone, his assistants, Miriam Goldfine and Dulcie Ponon, had arrived. Dulcie clipped and read to Riesel portions of the news coming in on the U.P.I, ticker; she also read selectively from the other New York morning papers, including the Wall Street Journal...
...their skimpy treatment of the "event which has thrilled millions of people." Songs are being written about the exploit, and teams of artists are at work designing posters and painting canvases. When they finally get home next week, the four sailormen will have the Moscow equivalent of a ticker-tape parade and a triumphal reception worthy of Madison Avenue...