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...East Coast, at just about the same time, another controversial visitor to the U.S., Yugoslavia's President Tito, gathered his 28-man party onto an ocean liner and bade the U.S. farewell...
Last week, like a diva making her positively final appearance. Norstad once again bade ceremonial leave to his old associates. The warmest and most unexpected leavetaking came from Charles de Gaulle, whose attitude to NATO has not been exactly ardent. At a ceremony in the Court of Honor of the 17th century Hotel des Invalides. General de Gaulle draped over General Norstad's shoulder the crimson sash and golden star of the Legion of Honor, its highest award. Like a courting giraffe, le grand Charles bent to give Lauris the buss that only one hero can bestow upon another...
Brown was leading by almost 300,000 votes at 2 p.m. (EST) yesterday afternoon when Nixon, his hopes for a political comeback ruined, bade farewell to public life in an angry concession speech...
When tearful Jack Paar bade his brave farewell to television's biggest late-nighttime audience, the silence that followed seemed merciful. The tantrums, the shaded vulgarity, the curious, hostile tension of his nightly soiree had come to an end. It has taken almost two months without Paar to illustrate how forceful each ingredient was. to sketch the enormity of the hole he left behind. Filling in until Johnny Carson takes over the Tonight show next fall, some of television's tinniest princes have presided over the show, and each has left the unmistakable mark of his inability...
...professional hecklers of management. At General Electric's meeting, austere Chairman Ralph J. Cordiner endured an almost continuous harangue from Mrs. Wilma Soss, president of the Federation of Women Shareholders, who lectured him on everything from selling appliances to the difficulties of getting to Schenectady by train, peremptorily bade him "keep quiet" when he tried to interrupt. Texaco's Chairman Augustus C. Long was visibly rankled by a woman who accused him of not fighting hard enough in defense of the oil industry's 27% depletion allowance. "When are you going to flex your muscles?" she cried...