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...couple of hours later, Lyndon strode across the lawn again, stopped at a White House limousine that had been parked at the rear entrance, unnoticed by newsmen, for nearly half an hour. Inside sat Hubert Humphrey and Connecticut's Senator Thomas Dodd, both summoned down from Atlantic City. Dodd, an old friend of the President's (he had backed him for the top spot in '60), was there partly to maintain the suspense over the vice-presidency and partly to get some visibility for his own campaign for reelection. In the car, Humphrey was sound asleep. Lyndon...
...monument last week strode the latest Liberator of the Congo, Premier Moise Tshombe, onetime leader of secessionist Katanga and the man whom most Congolese hold responsible for Lumumba's murder. Standing poker-faced in a tepid drizzle, Tshombe solemnly deposited a wreath at the foot of the portrait, bowed his head in silence. Later he delivered a speech that drew wild applause from at least 5,000 of Lumumba's former followers. "You have suffered too much from strings pulled abroad. The Congolese will not be valets of colonialists and imperialists...
...maintenance of national unity." On the day of the funeral, police blocked off 3½ miles of Paris' busiest boulevards, and half a million people stood in the sweltering heat as the mile-long procession headed for Père-Lachaise. Ahead of the flag-draped coffin strode ranks of miners from Thorez' native north, wearing red scarves and white helmets. Behind the hearse walked row after row of foreign Communist officials. At the cemetery Waldeck Rochet, who succeeded Thorez as secretary-general only ten weeks ago, paid respects to his old chief...
...watch in Washington these days, when it comes to economy and economics, is a balding, moonfaced fellow with few of the outward trappings of power. Each day last week, he strode briskly on the three-minute journey from his office in the Executive Building to Lyndon Johnson's office, where he and the President held earnest conversations; Johnson also telephoned him from the presidential jet en route to Texas. At week's end, when Johnson announced a lower 1964 deficit and a greater budget cut than earlier estimates, there was, typically, no sign...
Next day, with a precision born of 40 years as a soldier, Taylor strode out of the Pentagon's river entrance exactly at 10 a.m., escorted by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. Lined up before him was an honor guard of ceremonial units from each service and the U.S. Army band. Three 105-mm. howitzers roared a 19-gun salute over the muggy Potomac...