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...Gaulle was off to Bonn the next morning. He was given a carefully correct greeting at Wahn Airport from an Erhard bolstered by his recent warm reception in Washington. But conspicuously absent were the festoons of flags and the cheering crowds that marked De Gaulle's first triumphal appearance in Bonn in 1962. Still, with national elections looming this year for them both, De Gaulle and Erhard tacitly agreed to disagree without visible image-damaging acrimony. For his part, Erhard agreed to leave open for the time being any increase in the Common Market's control over...
Adopting the Habsburgs. Of course, many other nations suffer from crawling bureaucracy, but Italy's problem is on the scale of Michelangelo's David or the triumphal march in Aïda. Barzini traces its origins back to the 16th and 17th centuries, when together with so many other of Italian society's "baroque" characteristics, it was imported by Italy's hated Spanish Habsburg rulers, and then adopted and glorified by the natives. Nowadays most Italians consider the archvillains to be the bureaucrats themselves. They have come to be known as i burosauri, a name derived...
...Nureyev on the Royal Ballet's opening night. Then off to Norfolk, Va., for a luncheon speech on Viet Nam. Up to Washington to present awards to Agriculture Department employees whose ideas had saved the Government money. Down to Orlando, Fla., to convoy Astronaut John Young on his triumphal return home. Then on to North Carolina for a Sunday at Civil War historical ceremonies. So the Vice President of the U.S., Hubert Horatio Humphrey, 53, is having trouble keeping busy...
...opening night drew near, scalpers were commanding up to $800 for tickets. Bleary-eyed fans lined up and slept on the sidewalks outside the Met for three days to snap up 448 standing-room tickets. The buildup, and one of the most glittering audiences in memory, demanded a triumphal evening. Callas, singing the role of Tosca, made it so, not with her voice, but with every last ounce of her siren skill...
Ranging through the slums and into the hills, Belaúnde found himself attracting crowds in the thousands. "Following this winding road among the mountains," he cried, "I ask once more: Who made this road? And again, resounding in my ears like a triumphal march, I hear in these elegant words the history of all Peru's yesterdays, its present, the prophecy for its future: 'the people built...