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...first time in five months the sun melted the leaden skies over Bogota, Colombia, when Adlai Stevenson arrived on his South American tour. "Viva Democracy! Viva Adlai, Adlai, Adlai, Adlai !" roared crowds of Colombians as they flocked to Stevenson and his party, some for mixed motives: both Son John Fell Stevenson and ex-Senator William Benton lost their wallets to pickpockets. At a bullfight, where Stevenson was cheered the loudest, Matadors Luis Miguel Dominguín and Pepe Caceres dedicated their bulls to him. At a cocktail party Stevenson charmed the guests by bringing along Dominguín. Gushed...
...last October that he had no intention of giving plots of land to peasants, planned to keep it instead in state-run cooperative farms. Artime also said he was sick of hearing "youth brigades" chanting their military drill cadence count outside his window every evening:" Uno-dos-tres-cuatro- viva-Fidel-Castro...
Frilled Skirts. By evening, Ike was in Athens, and cheering throngs lined Poseidon Avenue and the streets of the suburb of Phaleron (where St. Paul is said to have landed when he journeyed to Greece). Rose petals pelted him as the procession moved past half a million people. "Viva!" they yelled (while the Communists chanted "Hyphesis"-Down with Tension). Ike could see the Parthenon glowing in light on the Acropolis, the ruins of the Temple of Olympian Zeus, and a small obelisk monument to Americans who were killed in Greece's 1821-29 war for independence from the Ottoman...
...heavy rain: thin. The motorcade rolled through the Gate of San Sebastiano, past the Baths of Caracalla and the Colosseum, into the Piazza Venezia, where Mussolini used to strut and harangue. Even there, only 2,000 umbrella-toting Romans came out to look, and only a few shouted "Viva Ike" (pronounced Eekay). Among the most vociferous were Rome's Communists, who had greeted SHAPE Supreme Commander Ike on his last visit in 1952 with IKE, GO HOME, now waved placards praising THE SPIRIT or CAMP DAVID, and urging SUMMIT IMMEDIATELY, END COLD WAR and LONG LIVE PEACE...
...independence from Spain, and cooler heads tried to confine it to a university-sponsored sovereignty rally in a plaza eight blocks from the Canal Zone. But even before the first moderate speaker could finish, 200 well-organized rioters took over. They drowned out the speaker with screams of "Viva Russia!" "Viva Fidel Castro!" and "To the Zone!", charged out of the square. Outflanking Panamanian National Guardsmen, they rushed across Fourth of July Avenue (the zone border) and rammed a flagstaff into soft Canal Zone earth. "All right, now," said a U.S. squad leader. "Move them...