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...curious crowd of 400 encircled him at the first tee, the President said: "I'd like to hit a practice ball, but I don't see how I can. They've sure got confidence in me." After security men cleared a small gap in the crowd, Ike blasted through it -"Good shot." the crowd murmured, and Ike shot an 89. Next morning, who should turn up at Culzean Castle but the President's old golf-playing and bridge-playing buddies, William Robinson, chairman of the board of Coca-Cola, and W. Alton ("Pete") Jones, chairman...
...whipped about and started churning for shore, crying: "Same da! Nigero!" (It's a shark! Run!) Closer to the shelf, his three brothers quickly made it back to safety and stood up to watch Masami's progress. Some ten yards behind him, but rapidly closing the gap, a glistening black triangle cut through the waves. Moments later Masami's brothers screamed with horror when the dorsal fin slipped from sight; the shark had dived to attack from below. Warned by their cries, Masami abruptly flailed his arms backward, and the shark's jaws snapped on empty...
...eagerness with which the director of the Reds' reception center greeted new arrivals, his small embarrassment at having to give them 30 marks' pocket money, the East Germans' skittishness at the approach of a Western newsman. Both East and West felt the urgency of the widening gap and tried to bridge it with words; white-haired Kirchentag President Reinhold von Thadden-Trieglaff, 68, of West Germany, spoke awkwardly in his opening speech of "the very special naturalness with which we greet our brothers...
...Community of Interest. But if the chasm between the two Germanys was growing, the gap between Catholics and Protestants was closing. In Munich Kirchentag delegates found themselves in the heart of Catholic Germany. It was the largest body of Protestants to descend on Munich since the armies of Gustavus Adolphus captured the city in 1632, and their advent was a great success. Munich's Joseph Cardinal Wendel took in Danish Bishop Frode Beyer and his wife as house guests, and many a Catholic family followed the cardinal's example. All over the city, for the Kirchentag...
...Khrushchev and his deputy, Frol Kozlov, are the only top Communists who are able to get through to the people across the extraordinary gap of class distinction that separates the Communist hierarchy from the people. Communist leadership in general has failed to develop any enthusiasm or support for the system itself; this lack of enthusiasm does not promise incipient revolution, but does promise minds receptive to logical Western argument...