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Before making a speech in Japan, he said, he had been warned about discrimination. But knowing that the Japanese think whoever bows longest is most polite, he kept bowing his head whenever he saw the audience were raising theirs. This stretched on for so long that finally everyone was laughing, he said...
...fiercest, longest, and almost certainly the last big battle the old man would ever fight. Its cost may be reckoned for years to come. But after seven weeks of haggling, browbeating, trickery and galling compromise, Konrad Adenauer still reigned last week as West Germany's Chancellor...
...writes for other singers as well (Patti Page, Bobby Rydell, Connie Francis). Not content with a bestseller career in the jukebox circuit, he has spread out into nightclubs, TV and movies. Last summer, landing on a Normandy Beach in a scene for 20th Century-Fox's The Longest Day (TIME, Sept. 8), he performed so valorously that General Dwight D. Zanuck has since expanded his role and called him back to Europe. Wherever he goes, in the U.S. or on song-promoting tours as far away as Japan, he is mobbed by teen-age nuts of all races...
Halaby's scoring jaunt was the longest since his brother Sam ran 84 yards for a touchdown against Brown in 1958. Another historical note: the Crimson's win was its first over Cornell in the Stadium since...
...lane expressways, under the water and beneath cities, even through buildings, past automated toll booths, in and out of sweeping cloverleafs is an experience few Europeans can farget. On the intricate stacks of downtown Los Angeles, where motorists peel off like jet fighters, on the rolling expanses of the longest toll road-the 561-mile-long New York State Thruway-U.S. drivers are routinely enjoying an achievement in engineering skill and a manifestation of public wealth unmatched anywhere else on earth. Today's superhighways cost an average $1,000,000 a mile; in downtown areas, the cost...