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...excites a Roman, it takes a good deal to turn the attention of other Europeans from their coq au vin, fish and chips or sauerbraten to any display of public fervor. It was therefore predictable that Richard Nixon's earnest pilgrimage stirred less excitement last week than the triumphant passages of his more glamorous predecessors, Eisenhower and Kennedy -or even than the European hegira early last month of Astronaut Frank Borman, fresh from orbiting the moon...
...triumphant tour of Europe last month, Apollo 8 Astronaut Frank Borman amused his audiences by insisting that he, James Lovell and William Anders were older than they would have been had they not flown to the moon. "I think we should get overtime for that," he complained. Borman was joking about his pay, but he was quite serious about his aging. During their moon mission, the astronauts aged about 300 microseconds (300 millionths of a second) more than the people they left behind on earth...
...PLANES have been cancelled until ten o'clock." Behind the counter, the woman's heavily madeup face spoke with mannered ugliness. "They're trying to de-ice the field," she continued approvingly. And then, triumphant, "Personally, I don't think there will be any flights...
...Party had the foresight to realize that a well-run, inexpensive, and attractive rock establishment would, in all probability, draw large and enthusiastic crowds. And so it proved. The Tea Party has had some down periods (notably early this summer before the left Beck Group then on its first triumphant tour of the U.S. brought the doldrums to an abrupt end) but the major part of the story is one of continued and extravagant success...
...time, Hitler openly savored the prospect of humiliating Russia by reviewing his triumphant soldiers from a stand in Leningrad's Palace Square. But three months after the invasion of Russia began and the prospects of quickly subduing Leningrad began to fade, he grew angry. The German high command declared: "The Führer has decided to raze the city of Petersburg from the face of the earth...