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...warmest greeting of all was given to Zephyr Wright, the Johnson family cook for 23 years. "Oh, Zassie," said Luci, "you look so pretty. I love your dress." Much was made of Zassie's fried chicken and spoon bread, without which, apparently, the Johnsons would never have endured. Zassie, at any rate, got busses from both bride and groom. When much-divorced Supreme Court Justice William Douglas came through the line, pulling along his newest young bride for introductions, the reaction was quite different. Luci's effusive manner cooled noticeably, and she offered only a perfunctory handshake...
Napoleonic Parallels. De Gaulle's visit began auspiciously enough with the warmest reception accorded any Western visitor in Soviet history. Seven MIG fighters locked in wingtip-to-wingtip formation escorted De Gaulle's plane to its landing. As the general deplaned in khakis and kepi, the band struck up La Marseillaise and a battery of antiaircraft cannon boomed 21 times-so loud and near that bystanders felt the breath of the guns. The honor guard was resplendent in grey, gold and red, and their rifle butts hit the ground with such popping precision that De Gaulle winced involuntarily...
...first installment of Ayub's debt. Into Rawalpindi flew Red Chinese President Liu Shao-chi and Foreign Minister Chen Yi for five days of talks and ceremonies. They were swept through Rawalpindi in a bubble-topped yellow Daimler amid flower-throwing crowds that accorded the Chinese the warmest welcome since Sheik Abdullah, "the Lion of Kashmir," visited two years...
Serenaded by a band and a group of frugging teenagers, egged on by a studio audience that cackles at each doublc-entendre, the ladies quickly become impulse buyers, opting for the bassest voice or the warmest laugh. The reward: a man plus an all-expenses-paid night on the town including dinner, show, and nightclub...
...Please accept my warmest thanks! I am thrilled with the story about me [Dec. 10] and greatly encouraged that your kind of treatment of my kind of music is in the hands of the world. This is the first time I have gotten through to a writer who has in turn gotten through to his readers what I had hoped would get through...