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...representatives were due aboard the Missouri to surrender, somebody discovered at the last minute that there was no table on hand big enough for the ceremonious signing. A table from the enlisted men's mess was carted topside and set up on the Missouri's teak-planked veranda deck. The ceremony over, the table was taken back to the mess where it belonged. A dozen men had eaten spaghetti at it before the ship's officers shouted, "Where's the table?" They retrieved the now historic object and stowed it reverently away in an officer...
...veranda deck of the slate-grey battleship shone with the color of red-striped Russians, red-ribboned Britons, olive-drab Chinese, and row upon row of khaki-clad American admirals and generals...
William Beebe, 68, past master at best-selling exploration (Jungle Peace, Jungle Days), returned to Manhattan from yet another expedition, reported that he had done his latest wildlife-peeping from the cool veranda of an unused Venezuelan luxury hotel. He broke his leg and spent most of his five-month stay peering at the jungle through binoculars. He found the view so good that he now would like to build the place into a sort of scientists' center...
Late one afternoon last week Republican bigwigs began arriving on the veranda of the Governor's antiquated Albany mansion to discuss an important question with Tom Dewey: Who should be the Republican nominee for the Senate seat of famed New Dealer Robert Wagner? But Tom Dewey had an answer ready. By the Governor's usual bedtime the conferences were over and the opposition candidates resigned to the inevitable. Next day, before lunch, the Governor's candidate was nominated...
...jumped onto a wharf. Another tossed her anchor into her neighbor's rigging. Everything on the dock, including seven fire engines, disappeared. A mile away a householder saw every window in his home shatter at once, found a 28-lb. gold -bar (worth $27,700) on his veranda. An officer staggered, blackened and bleeding, into the Taj Mahal Hotel muttering, "the air-full of arms and legs and heads -horrible-horrible...