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...Chief of Staff Maxwell D. Taylor the blue-and-red standards of the famous "Screaming Eagles"-the 101st Airborne Division of World War II. In front of the reviewing stand perched a bald eagle, hastily acquired from a South Carolina zoo. Unused to the rocket blast and the plane roar, it had battered itself against its cage all day. Now, as the troops massed, the bands blared, and the colors were handed over, it rested hooded and bound on its perch, its right wing trailing downward. Not once did it scream...
...darkness one day last week, an Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway mail train pulled off the main line and onto a siding about five miles south of the little cattle town of Springer, N. Mex., to let the Santa Fe's Los Angeles-bound streamliner, the Chief, roar past. As the mail train slid to a stop, Fireman Pete Camilo Caldarelli, 44, climbed down out of the locomotive and walked through the chill desert air to a switch up ahead. The job he had to do was one he had done many times in the past: stand...
Senator Joseph McCarthy, the paunch-and-jowly look gone, his face pale, eyes gentle, and the familiar roar replaced by soft, conciliatory words, said he had lost 41 Ibs. Present occupation: writing a book on the origins of the (1937-45') war between China and Japan...
...honorary convention chairman; Joe Martin steadying old (82) Herbert Hoover with a thoughtful touch of the elbow; the fixed, pasty smile on the face of Harold Stassen; the sheer spectacle of thousands of balloons cascading overhead as bells, sirens, organ and band music clashed with the crowd's roar...
...minutes ticked slowly by, the silence was broken only by the occasional stifled whimpering of the babies strapped on women's backs. On the half-hour there arose a roar: "Afrika Maribuya!" (Africa return to us!), and the women in their bright costumes began to sway to the rhythm of Nkosi Sikelele Afrika (God Bless Africa), the National Congress anthem. Their protest made, the women went away as quietly as they had come...