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Next morning Nehru, wearing a white rose, laid a wreath at the Lenin-Stalin mausoleum in Red Square, and set out on the standard Kremlin tour, interrupted at intervals by "passing" groups of happy Russian tourists, who just chanced to have bouquets of flowers to give to him. In the Kremlin armory Nehru lingered over a small dirk of Indian craftsmanship, once owned by Peter the Great...
Hamamura sprinted across the finish line at the Lenox Hotel with such momentum that Mayor John Hynes had to run after him before he could crown him with the traditional laurel wreath. Hamamura's time: 2:18.22, just 29 seconds better than Yamada's record. Third, back of Pulkkinen, Nick Costes clocked the fastest American time (2:19.57) since Vic Dyrgall finished second in 1952. Way back in 24th place was U.S. Veteran John Kelley, 47, who earned the laurel wreath twice (1935 and 1945), in the days before the foreigners took over the Patriots' Day marathon...
...Mecklin asked one Camau villager, however, who Diem was. "Don't know." Had he heard of Communist Ho Chi Minh? "He's President." Had he heard of the U.S.? "The Viet Minh say you're all capitalists." What's a capitalist? "They make people poor." Wreath on the Monument. Gingerly Diem's young Nationalist army moved step by step more deeply into Camau-the towns first, then the villages, then out by powered boats along the bayous. They had been carefully briefed (with U.S. assistance). No French were anywhere to be seen, and no mention...
...week's end. "You have many needs; I shall do my best." Gradually the indoctrinated and indifferent villagers grew more receptive. Premier Diem, however, did not underrate the ingrained tenacity of Viet Minh Communism. One day one of Diem's Nationalist soldiers accidentally kicked over a wreath the Viet Minh had left behind on a monument to their dead. A young Camau kid quietly stepped out from a group of passers-by and, unafraid, laid the wreath back in its place...
After the state dinner and prescribed night in the White House, the Magloires moved across the street to Blair-Lee House, later laid a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Shortly after noon, the House of Representatives' doorkeeper boomed: "The President of the Republic of Haiti!" and Magloire strode in to address a joint session of Congress. His aim, he said, is to make his country totally immune to Communism by raising the national standard of living...