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...midnight, her tiara sparkling in the blazing lights. Queen Elizabeth bade Chicago farewell. As sirens wailed and fireworks plumed above the lake, Queen and Prince boarded Britannia to sail on to Sault Ste. Marie and Port Arthur. In the harbor, a lone amateur trumpeter, on the deck of his cabin cruiser, touchingly sounded his own version of Pomp and Circumstance...
...lone dissenter was Justice Tom Clark, who disagreed so strenuously that Justice John Marshall Harlan chided him for succumbing to the "temptations of colorful characterization." Argued Clark, from the perspective of a longtime (1945-49) U.S. Attorney General: "Surely one does not have a constitutional right to have access to the Government's military secrets . . . No one reading the [majority] opinion will doubt that ... its broad sweep speaks in prophecy. Let us hope the winds may change. If they do not, the present temporary debacle will turn into a rout of our internal security...
...After firemen, swimmers and divers battled currents for four days in a vain effort to reach the yelping dog, the city fathers shut off the water flow, and while 26 factories ground to an hour's halt for lack of power and hundreds of workers stood idle, a lone fireman retrieved Gigo, weak, hungry, 13 lbs. lighter but unharmed. The grand gesture cost the city of Salzburg...
...contained a dozen paintings by the American artist Edward Hopper. This should have pleased those with conservative tastes. Hopper chose ordinary, commonplace subjects and painted them almost realistically. But the almost is crucial; for herein lies his personal contribution. Somehow he was able to capture masterfully the moods of lone-liness. The best-known item in this dozen was "The Bootleggers." In it, Hopper painted his clapboard house not white, not gray, but light blue; and this bluishness works an ineffable effect on the beholder...
...society) sends 849 copies to Uganda and Kenya, 57 to Broken Bow, Neb., 73 to North Borneo, and one to Hunza, a Central Asian state so remote that the Magazine each month must be carried 12,000 miles by boat, train, plane, Jeep and native runner to accommodate its lone subscriber, His Highness the Mir. With remarkable loyalty, 87% of National Geographic subscribers voluntarily renew...