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...Flying Cross for leading the first U.S. carrier strike of the war. A couple of weeks later he got a Navy Cross when his planes sank some Japanese ships in Torpedo Junction off the eastern Solomons. To ward the end of the war, he had com mand of the escort carrier Chenango when the ship earned a Navy Unit Commendation for operations off Okinawa...
...free libraries and reading-rooms are ideal for forgetting hunger pangs, and are well patronized by Britons eager to strike up an interesting silence . . . Sympathizers with your plight will readily escort you on tours of gasworks, municipal offices and other near showplaces such as the British Transport Commission or any of the more liberal-minded Catchment [Drainage] Boards." A cheap half-day tour: "two building sites, waits in selected Mayfair bus-queues, a good look at Aldgate Pump...
...asked if they wanted their freedom. To a woman, they did. There remained the 350 wives at the royal village of Mushenge itself. Waiting till the King set out on one of his periodic visits to another part of the forest, Mputukanga rushed in with his armed escort, polled the palace girls, too. Returning, the King was enraged to find that all but a meager cadre of 50 wives had decamped...
...opened with a downpour outside London's Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. As they emerged from separate limousines, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Margaret and Princess Alexandra, opulently gowned, bejeweled and tiara-topped, struck strikingly similar attitudes and expressions before dashing under the marquee in the escort of an umbrella-holding doorman. Several days later, Elizabeth had a far closer call from an overhead peril. Ordinarily, when she flies in her own realm, her air travel is known as a "purple flight," and all aircraft must avoid her route by ten miles. Flying back home from...
After this lavish warm-up, Kennedy turned on all his political steam: he said he had come to New York "without an escort" and quipped that Tom Dewey was out in California "giving Dick Nixon some last-minute advice on strategy." "You all know the elephants in the circus--little imagination and long memory--how each hangs on to the tail of the one in front. Well, in 1952 and 1956, Dick Nixon hung on to that tail, but this year he's running alone." Kennedy listed, selectively, some 20th century Republican candidates ("just listen to those names") and said...