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...Guild started paying weekly benefits ranging from $25 to $80 per striker (depending on size of family). Some idle mechanical workers signed on as extra hands at other evening and morning newspapers, which were making advertising hay while the World-Telegram and Sun was behind the strike cloud...
...first, from a distance, the dust cloud kicked up by the prancing pinwheels looked like a small grey ball, growing darker and darker. Then at the President's box, the blue uniforms of his honor guard began to turn a dusty white. Suddenly, as the helicopters changed direction, M. Auriol himself could be dimly seen making violent gestures-that were clearly not applause...
When it was over, Choreographer Lifar himself seemed to have disappeared in a cloud of dust. Reporters raced to the committee box. Why had there been no music for Lifar's ballet? Said one grim spokesman: there was "no ballet." But, insisted the reporters, it was billed in the program as a ballet; what were Lifar and all those helicopters doing out there? Said the spokesman, his face set: "No ballet. Just helicopters...
...know. I learn of it now." People exclaimed: "But aren't you the reliquary's keeper?" Said Mayor Gregori in soft tones: "I am the reliquary's keeper, but who am I to enter into a religious question? I am under a cloud. What can a Communist do against the spiritual power of the church...
Just as the crowd was working itself into a mood to stop the removal of the reliquary, a cloud drifted over Orvieto. Hail began to rattle down. Quickly, the people understood the sign: the hail would have shattered a glass-roofed truck. The closed truck was best. Maurizio Ravelli, who looks after the reliquary, had built into the truck a triple floor with springs and delicate silver pistons to ease the passage of the reliquary. Driven at 15 m.p.h. over roads strewn with scarlet poppy petals between rows of kneeling, weeping, praying people, the reliquary made its journey to Rome...