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...flourish of trumpets, a, bronze bowl flaring with fire, a grey whir of pigeons beating upward above the banners of 68 nations, a parade of athletes swearing allegiance to a sportsman's creed-all this proclaimed last week that the 1956 Olympic Games had begun...
...work on the lawn (and, incidentally, trim off his extra poundage), Bess bought a new power mower. Every time she asked him to use it, Harry would grunt his agreement, do nothing. Bess kept nagging. One Sunday morning she was putting the breakfast dishes away, when she heard the whir of the mower. Harry Truman was mowing the grass-and waving happily at church-going friends...
...occasion of a visit to the court of- the Hellenes, inspected Queen Frederika of Greece from stem to stern and raucously proclaimed her "the cutest little Queenie I ever saw." The Congressman and his antics came a few years too soon: today he could play his role before the whir, glare and flash of a dozen cameras. In the harlequinade tumble for television, radio and newspaper publicity, more and more Congressmen have begun to play to the microphone and the lens...
...ornate Treaty Room of the old State Department Building across the street from the White House for President Eisenhower's news conference, the glaring eyes of four movie and television cameras stared at the scene from a platform at the end of the room. The cameras began to whir before the President came in and remarked that "we are trying a new experiment," and they kept right on until U.P.'s Merriman Smith cried, "Thank you, Mr. President," and ended the conference. Three and a half hours later, after editing by presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty, the film...
...Aires wisecrack. The answer: "Mercedes-Benz" -a humorous salute to the more than 13,000 German busses, trucks and cars that roll through the capital's streets. In Brazil, doctors rely on new German X-ray machines; in Haiti, Bavarian beer is the favorite; in Mexico, German generators whir in new power plants. These signs and portents measure a striking development: exports of goods from Germany to Latin America, at a dead halt only eight years ago, were 2½ times greater by dollar volume in 1954 than in any year during Germany's pre-World...