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...accredited visitor at the sixth assembly of the World Council of Churches, and as near as I am able to ascertain, your reporter must have attended a different meeting. The assembly was the most exciting event of my lifetime. It is too bad your reporter missed the whole event...
First, he tried to woo the kid by walking him into the Indoor Track and Tennis Center (ITT) and showing him the track--a facility some call the fastest in the world. Sometimes that's all it took. But sometimes the visitor asked the question Haggerty didn't want to hear: where's the outdoor track? Haggerty usually just said. "It's in the Stadium." Rarely did he bother to show off the run-down four-lane cinder circuit...
...installed. The steering column has been shifted from right to left, and the chuggy diesel motors used in London have been replaced with smoother-running gasoline engines. Although the London cabs have an ungainly body style, passengers appreciate their contour seats, high roofs and wide doors. Says one American visitor to Jidda: "One sits high in the back, with handles to grasp as the driver works his way through the city's horn-honking, madcap traffic...
...what all this imperial talk of crowning a Miss Universe is about. Making his way to the wings of the stage, he turns and sees Pageant Host Bob Barker, 59. (Truth or Consequences and The Price Is Right are not in syndication on his planet yet, but the visitor feels Bob looks shorter in person than on the TV monitor.) He also gets a new twist on "singing," when Guest Star John Schneider (The Dukes of Hazzard) belts out "It's not where you start. It's where you finish." Finally, Miss New Zealand, Lorraine Elizabeth Downes...
...President is the constant center of attention. But a Washington visitor on the Fourth of July weekend would have thought Reagan was a kind of laid-back god. The Washington Post on Sunday, July 3, normally a time to print celebrations of purple mountain majesties, scaled new Reagan heights. He dominated the front page in photograph and story, arguing gently with Environmentalist Ansel Adams. He or events around him were the topic of the day for Columnists Haynes Johnson, Mary McGrory, Joseph Kraft, et al. Special Contributors George Reedy and Joseph Califano, both from Lyndon Johnson's White House...