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...called Kelley the Elder, and counted out by all but sentimentalists. But there was another Kelley in contention-Boston University Student John J. Kelley (no kin to John A.)-and also a Natick, Mass, schoolteacher, Nick Costes, to give the U.S. a chance for the Patriots' Day laurel wreath. The younger Kelley, a ten-year veteran at 25, had finished fifth in 1953, seventh in 1954. Costes had placed a strong third last year...
...four days last week the leaders of the U.S. greeted Giovanni Gronchi with unusual warmth and attention. Gronchi had consultations with Eisenhower, dined and wined with Dulles and Nixon, talked international labor with the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s George Meany. Guards of honor presented arms when Gronchi laid a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, and the National Gallery of Art stayed open after closing time to accommodate Gronchi's handsome signora. At the gallery Gronchi told his guides how much he admired its selections from the work of his countryman, Fra Angelico, and then he made...
Plants were uprooted from flowerbeds and flung at France's Premier. Oranges, banana peels, tomatoes, even the droppings from the uniformed Spahis' rearing horses showered about him. Pale but resolute, Mollet went up the steps through the barrage to the war memorial, and laid there a wreath honoring Algiers' war veterans. Even as the Spahis cleared a path for him back to his car, the demonstrators swarmed upon the monument, tore his wreath to shreds...
...murmurings against Catroux, Mollet announced steadfastly: "I will accompany General Catroux, and we will ride in the same car." Early this week, as the angry mutterings swelled, Catroux resigned. Mollet went off alone to Algiers, where he was greeted with a shower of rotten tomatoes as he laid a wreath at a monument to war dead...
...took more than common sense-namely, guts-to face the wigs of 18th-century Europe in a fur cap. It took more (or perhaps less) than common sense-namely, a theatrical flair-to allow the great ladies of the French court to crown his balding head with a laurel wreath. It took more than common sense-namely, faith and knowledge-to stand before the House of Commons and make a case for the fantastic proposition that 13 small colonies could hold out against the commercial and military might of the British Empire, rather than submit to unfair taxes...