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...turned out, the synopsis was unhappily apt. As the Queen found her footing in the course of a harbor tour, acting San Diego Mayor William Cleator, trying to be helpful, put his palm lightly, briefly on her back. Some San Diegans were scandalized by the mayor's familiarity, and sensation-hungry Fleet Street reporters pounced. "The Queen was visibly bothered," the Daily Express huffed, "and frowned her disapproval...
...Finally, says Grenier, in 1941 (with Hitler in full control of Europe and America's Pacific feel at the bottom of Pearl Harbor) Gandhi "addressed an open letter to the prince of darkness himself, Adolf Hitler...'Dear Friend,' the letter begins and proceeds to a heartfelt appeal to the Further to embrace all mankind irrespective of race, color, or creed.' Surprisingly, it is not known to have had any deep impact on Hitler...
...enough to support a rooftop landing pad for a helicopter. Foundation construction has begun, and some $460 million in contracts have already been let. But steel has yet to rise to a point where it can be seen above the fenced-off building site on landfill in Hong Kong harbor...
...ships to collect thousands of its stranded citizens who began packing the docks in Lagos the day after the expulsion order. By the time the first ship arrived, more than 30,000 people were waiting on the quays. In the scramble to get aboard, several plunged into the harbor; at least one drowned. "It was crazy," said a Nigerian port official. "Fights broke out, and the police had a hard job controlling the crowd." Those who missed the first ship camped out amid gathering piles of garbage, grateful for the harmattan, a breeze of Saharan dust that blotted...
...bombing of Pearl Harbor was reproduced at a Navy base in Port Hueneme, Calif, and the Navy allowed only four days for filming. Rented Navy destroyers were wired with simulated explosives, set to go off in a chain reaction. By mistake a jittery technician fired them before the cameras were ready to role. It took 35 people to rig them up again. A similar delay occurred during filming at Aaron Jastrow's Tuscan villa, which had been chosen because of its faded golden hues, the result of years of weathering. The owner of the villa was so proud...