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...must take , the Russians at their word") have scared off many followers, Maier is an old-style anticlerical German "liberal," paunchy, frugal and folksy. He is a Swabian who likes nothing ,better than to walk the Württemberg slopes in clodhopper shoes, Lederhosen and hairy loden-cloth jacket, stopping now and again to exchange light-heavyweight jokes with farmers...
...Burma that Benny really wowed them. In Rangoon, Benny led his band dressed in pink gaungbawng headgear, black alpaca jacket and checked sarong. The crowd (including Soviet Ambassador Alexey D. Shiborin) went wild. "Thank the Lord I've lived to hear this!" cried a frenzied spectator. Before he left, Benny made a recording of the Burmese national anthem that may be made the official version by the Burmese government. Then Benny and band took off for six solidly booked concerts in Tokyo, where he was introduced as "the great Benjamin Goodman" and showered with flowers. Said one sideman nostalgically...
Tooling up to a Memphis induction center in his li'l ol' unpretentious cream-colored Cadillac, Dreamboat Groaner Elvis Presley, a hulking 21, went bravely inside, peeled off his inconspicuous scarlet and black jacket and other trappings, permitted medicos to examine him. The doctors' verdict: a fine broth of a lad, pelvis and all, eligible for drafting-probably to serve in some special services division, tote some such gone weapon as a guitar. Before rolling off in his Caddie, Elvis allowed that the intelligence test he had taken was a breeze. Groaned the bobby-soxers' golden...
...patriotic emotion, messengers came with the news that Gero was talking on the radio. Ferenc Kocsis went with part of the crowd to Radio Budapest, where the AVH were throwing tear-gas grenades. He saw a young boy?"just a little fellow with an open shirt and an old jacket, no overcoat and no hat"?pick up one of the grenades and throw it back. The AVH panicked, and the mob surged forward. Ferenc heard a burst of machine-gun fire. There was a sudden silence and then a roar went up, soft at first, and then like thunder...
...harsh cry from the back of the church made everyone jump. "Peace! Peace! Where can we find peace?" Shouldering through the crowd at the door came a stocky man in a khaki jacket wearing a pistol in a shoulder holster. Following him were a woman in a peasant kerchief and a small girl. In a front pew, severe-looking Gifford Proctor, a business executive, demanded: "Who comes to this house of God seeking peace...