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Popovic was out at modern Surcin Airport to greet Rusk when the big U.S. jet touched down. Also on hand was a red carpet and a military band. But that was the end of the fanfare. Since the Yugoslavs do not unfurl foreign flags along the new autoput that leads from the airport to the city except for a visiting chief of state. Rusk's route was lined with blue-and-white Finnish banners in place for President Urho K. Kekkonen's arrival next day. There were no crowds at all, since the Yugoslavs did not bother...
...Spiegel had traveled the red carpet toward the top Oscar twice before-in 1954 for On the Waterfront, and in 1957 for The Bridge on the River Kwai. And Central Casting itself could not produce a more classic prototype of the Hollywood producer. He chomps cigars, calls everybody baby except babies, speaks nine languages, all of them except his native German with a heavy accent. He is a hard man to work for. The story goes that when Writer Irwin Shaw was working on Waterfront, his wife awoke one morning at 3 o'clock to find her husband...
However, it was not Wilson's past that brought out Washington's red carpet but his potential future. Even though elections will probably not be called for at least a year, no U.S. policymaker could ignore today's Gallup polls, which give the Labor Party a record 50% to 33½% lead over the Tories. If that trend should continue, Harold Wilson would be Britain's next Prime Minister...
Lovely Rival. King Hassan even produced a rival for Jackie in his lovely young sister, Princess Lalla Nezha, 22, who was greeted with a bouquet of red roses. All the proper protocol was laid on, from a 50-yd. red carpet to a spit and polish honor guard. "We are proud to welcome you. Your Majesty," said the President to the King. "Your country was the first to recognize the U.S. in the most difficult days of our Revolution."* King Hassan responded by saying that he had come to the U.S. "to renew my acquaintance with your people, to meet...
...thought they heard gunshots. But they were watching a TV show called Naked City, a cops-'n'-robbers thriller about New York-and what were a few gunshots more or less? The ladies did nothing. Next morning a janitor went into Lewis' office. On his new carpet lay Ben Lewis, his wrists bound in handcuffs, a dead cigarette in his fingers, and three bullet holes in the back of his skull...