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...salute from Mount Lycabettus woke Athenians at dawn. Church bells tolled and flags drooped at half-mast. Newspapers appeared with black-framed front pages. Places of amusement were closed all day, and for half an hour all traffic stopped, streets emptied, doors were closed and blinds drawn...
...lilac-strewn clinic .suite overlooking Lake Geneva, Rita slept, woke to a happy world which poured messages of congratulation, flowers and presents upon her. On New Year's Day a Swiss photographer was admitted to the Mont-Choisi Clinic to take pictures of a radiant Rita with Princess Yasmin on the pillow beside her, sound asleep. Ahead of Rita lay a sojourn in Aly's 15-room chalet at Gstaad, the winter sports resort, where she would rest and recuperate under the care of a special masseur and the fond eyes, of course, of Aly, his pressagent...
...have waked up to find their shades taken down whilst they slept and later replaced in an equally mysterious manner. Once a man in Leverett House walked into his room to find two total strangers sitting on his sofa smoking. Seeing him, they rose and left silently. Another soul woke up to find his bed being moved into the center of the room by two burly strangers. The two them looked briefly out the window and left without a word...
...some breakfast, and had just lit a cigarette and pulled up a nurse when the doctor and his secretary came in. The doctor asked me when I first felt sick. I said, "When I first woke up yesterday morning I felt as though I had a fever...
Then the doctor dictated to his secretary, "When he first woke up yesterday morning, the patient felt as though he had a fever." He asked me some more questions and looked at me. After a while he said I had pharangitis...