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...Pacific for the misty-eyed moment in Hawaii. There, at Hickam Field, U.S.A.F. Gen. Emmett ("Rosie") O'Donnell Jr., 56, leader of the first B-29 raid on Tokyo in 1944, was mustered out after 35 years of service. In the White House Rose Garden, with parallel pomp, U.S.N. Admiral George Anderson Jr., 56, the Chief of Naval Operations who planned and ran the Cuba blockade and then was replaced by President Kennedy, got a gold star (in lieu of a second Distinguished Service Medal) from the President with "strong personal appreciation" for 36 years of service. His next...
Times have changed only slightly since. The revelry has become more sophisticated and subdued but Commencement is still one of New England's grandest spectaculars. What passes for traditional academic pomp mingled with joyous celebration is just as much kindergarten as college: once a year, now for the 312th time, the boys of Harvard are playing a game they call a festive rite, a game interrupted in three centuries only by a smallpox epedemic...
...Despite his wealth, he shuns luxuries, has no hobbies, and usually reads himself to sleep over bank reports. So strict a Moslem is he that he prays toward Mecca five times a day, allows none of his employees to drink, smoke or eat pork in his presence. Unimpressed by pomp, he treats peddlers, peasants and princes alike. He knows almost every Arab ruler from Ben Bella to King Saud, royally says of Jordan's King Hussein: "He is like one of my sons, but I tell him when he is wrong...
...last week of the campaign, Pearson made an uncharacteristically emotional appeal to the voters, as he surveyed the fragile state of Canadian unity. "I am not concerned with power for the sake of pomp or power," he said. "I want to do what I can to make sure that my grandchildren will live in a united Canadian nation, in a world of security and peace. There is so much, so much to be done. Give me your trust. God willing, I will not let you down...
...order to dispel any notion that observers were brought in merely "as topdressing to the pomp and splendor of the occasion," the cardinal dwelled at length on the efforts made by both sides to integrate non-Catholics in line with the ecumenical aspects of the Council...