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Wearing a lace-trimmed Ukrainian shirt, a light grey suit and a snapbrim straw hat, he advanced briskly over the red carpet to greet his host, President Sukarno, who, with a flashing smile, said: "You have a big job ahead of you. You'll have many hands to shake...
...Madison Square Garden." At General Electric's X-ray division, he lunched with company officials. When the 3:30 afternoon whistle blew at the giant International Harvester plant, Humphrey was waiting at the gate to greet the workers and shake scores of hands as the men headed for home. Hurrying back across town in the dusk, he stopped off at a press conference to explain his candidacy ("The Democrats need someone to meet Nixon head on"), then paused in his hotel room long enough to mull over the script of the address he was to make on television that...
...Nehru hastened to add, the fight with Kerala's Reds should not be confused with India's policy of friendly relations with Communist nations. To prove his point, he flew straight back to New Delhi to greet with smiles President Kliment Voroshilov and a large Soviet group arriving for a good-will tour. "Hindi Russi bhai bhai [Indians and Russians are brothers]," cried Voroshilov at the airport, and Nehru gaily clutched the arm of the stalwart lady standing beside him, Mrs. Ekaterina Furtseva, member of the Soviet Communist Party's Presidium. Nehru had worked hard to stir...
...teen-age girls in pony tails squeal their delight in "rockabilly" singers, and the streets resound to jukebox music and the clatter of pachinko (pinball) machines. But in most of Japan, marriages are still arranged by traditional matchmakers, business deals are still settled in geisha houses, and wives still greet their husbands on hands and knees. Laments a young sculptor: "It is impossible for us not to lead a double life, half Japanese, half Western. The result is that we are frustrated, and do not know whom to turn to or what road to follow...
...Cameroon's new green, yellow and red flag fluttered proudly on poles that had carried the French Tricolor for 40 years, thousands gathered before the Legislative Assembly building at midnight to greet independence day with cheers. Later that morning Premier Ahidjo proudly assembled his distinguished guests for the formal ceremony pronouncing independence. The foreigners, who included...