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...Tour. With a jovial Johnson ushering them, the whole gang trooped around the South Lawn. One visitor told the President that he was a student from India. Lyndon inquired in the manner of a solicitous relative: "Is Mr. Nehru getting any better?" To a Canadian, the President commented: "I enjoyed my visit with your Prime Minister so much. Matter of fact, I just talked on the phone with him last week." To a Filipina girl, he said: "We've got our Secretary of State out in the Philippines right...
...what she calls her "Harry High School" image, but she recently had a group of teenagers in to dance the Frug in the Blue Room-a White House first. Lynda Bird, 20, a government major at George Washington University, often enriches her education when she spies a distinguished presidential visitor in the waiting room. She sits right down and starts popping a barrage of coed's questions about current events. Once Lynda spotted Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas and asked, "Now what have you been up to?" Replied the grinning Justice: "Dispensing justice with an even hand...
There were others. Liston seemed to be surrounded by curious people-like Nevada Gambler Ash Resnick, described as "athletic director" of a Las Vegas hotel, who was in Sonny's corner on the night he lost the title. And Pep Barone, a Palermo factotum, who was a ubiquitous visitor at Liston's training camp. ("Sonny thinks Pep is good luck," explained Nilon. "He's very superstitious.") The tenderness of the hearings reached a high point with the testimony of paradoxical Edward Lassman, a member of the Miami Beach Boxing Commission, which gave its official blessing...
...people lined the streets (v. 1,500,000 who turned out for Jack and Jackie Kennedy in 1962). Standing in his black Mercedes convertible, De Gaulle was showered with vivas and confetti. Everywhere, in shop windows, in newspapers, on billboards, portraits of De Gaulle beamed back at the visitor. They ranged from thumbnail-size De Gaulles on 1,000,000 commemorative stamps to a five-story likeness hung in Mexico City's Plaza de la Constituci...
...received the keys to the city; at a joint session of the Mexican Congress, a standing ovation. His most enthusiastic reception came at Mexico's national university, where exuberant students swept aside his aides and crashed through a glass door for a closer look at the fabled visitor. Arriving early for Mass at the venerated Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, near the capital, the general was met by Mexico's primate, Archbishop Miguel Darió Miranda, who extended his crucifix for the kneeling visitor to kiss. "Do it again!" cried slow-starting photographers; to their amazement...