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Helicopters beat low over Havana, and Russian-built MIG-19 sweptwing jets sent sonic booms thundering down the capital's seafront Malecon Drive. In every town along the 760-mile length of Cuba, the speechmakers mounted their platforms to trumpet victory to the assembled populace. The first anniversary of Fidel Castro's triumph over the haphazard U.S.-backed Bay of Pigs invasion was at hand, and May Day lay just ahead. It was time to celebrate in Communist Cuba...
...ceremony at Western Railway Station in Vienna last week recalled Austria's ancient grandeur. The Viennese Guards, clad in grey uniforms with silver fourra-geres, stood at attention as a trumpet blared. Beside them on the platform waited Austrian President Adolf Scharf and Chancellor Alfons Gorbach as the train slid in bearing West Germany's President Heinrich Liibke for a five-day state visit...
...Waldorf with hours of zephyrous speeches, and at the U.N. Glenn and his fellow astronauts chatted with the diplomats over champagne. Between the official rounds, the Glenn family shed their shoes in their Waldorf suite (to minimize the static electricity) and assembled at the blast of a trumpet-the gift of Manhattan's musicians-playfully tooted by father John. For relaxation they spent successive evenings at the theater, at How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and at Camelot. Glenn's sense of humor flashed when he met Sir Harry Howard, Lord Mayor of Perth, Australia...
...father, by turns, was a railroad conductor, the proprietor of a plumbing business, and the owner of the local Chevrolet agency. As a boy, he swam in Crooked Creek, hunted rabbits, played football and basketball, read Buck Rogers, was a great admirer of Glenn Miller, and blew a blaring trumpet in the town band.* Predominantly Presbyterian, New Concord's moral code was such that cigarettes were judged to be instruments of the Devil, and the kids nicknamed the town Saint's Rest. But even for New Concord, young Glenn's standards were strict...
...Salvation Army, revival singers, Texas preachers, and other primitive interpreters of the Gospel. Lee Hays as the properly bored but sympathetic faith healer, and Ronnie Gilbert as a sinful, boozing woman gone straight, played their parts to perfection. Erik Darling contributed a fine off-key, off-rhythm trumpet accompaniment...