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DEER CREEK (310 pp.)-Gulielma Fell Alsop-Vanguard...
...required meetings for the registration vanguard are on Monday's schedule, one to open the day at 9 o'clock and the other to close it at 5. Both are in New Lecture Hall...
...vanguard of rescuers plunged through a half mile of brush and swamp, entered a boggy, smoke-filled ravine. Ahead of them lay a clearing, littered with splintered and uprooted trees. The trees were burning, and there were flickering pools of flame on the gasoline-soaked ground. Nothing moved. Torn sections of dura-luminum, shards of glass, smoldering seat cushions, broken instruments lay scattered for a hundred yards, but there was nothing to suggest the great machine's shape or purpose. Rags of clothing, women's purses hung with shocking festiveness high in trees. For a hundred feet...
...Welcome Home!" roared half a million voices from the crowd clustered 40-deep along the Portsmouth waterfront. Naval batteries thundered salutes. Sirens howled. And from a forest of mastheads bobbing in the harbor royal ensigns dipped in respectful greeting. On the quarter-deck of the Vanguard the Royal Family stood once again, berry-brown and beaming at the end of their 14,000-mile, three-month trip. As the great, grey battleship that had carried them so far slid gracefully into her home berth once more, Princess Elizabeth was so excited that she broke into a dance step. "Oh," cried...
...Craned Neck. In London next day, many another joyful, loyal subject felt the same. It was spring, the Royal Family were home again, and it was the tenth anniversary of the coronation as well. London was in holiday mood. The travelers had spent one last night aboard the Vanguard in Portsmouth (early-rising dockyard workers scrupulously observed a zone of silence about the ship so the family could sleep until 8 a.m.), but by 9 in the morning the London crowds had already begun to gather at Buckingham Palace, munching sandwiches on the curbs. Drab Government buildings were decked with...