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Unpresumptuous Try. Yet when Ben Bella strode to the rostrum...
...struggled manfully on electric accordion, tuba, cornet, saxophone, trumpet and trombone to render Hail to the Chief. Rain was falling steadily when Kennedy arrived at the high school football stadium for the political rally. But 7,500 persons were nonetheless on hand to hear and cheer him. Coatless, Kennedy strode through the rain to the covered platform. "When I come back to West Virginia," he declared. "I feel as if I was coming home...
...Marcello Mastroianni strode through the bustle splendidly faking directorial omniscience. And when Fellini wasn't looking, he sneaked off-perhaps as once happened on another film-to a nearby phone booth to go to sleep in it standing...
...swimming incident took place in Santa Monica, where Kennedy had stopped off for a visit with his brother-in-law, Actor Peter Lawford. The President spent a lazy afternoon beside Lawford's pool, then, deciding he wanted to try the surf, strode through a gate onto the public beach. Hundreds of bathers came running up. Shaking hands as he went, the President marched into the water. Many of his admirers trailed after him, including one fully dressed woman. After 15 minutes, Kennedy emerged from the sea, and again he was all but mobbed...
Loaded with Shovels. In Lebanon, the first stop, Lyndon's motorcade had barely pulled away from Beirut's Khalde International Airport when the Vice President was off and running. He jumped out of the car at a traffic circle, strode through ankle-deep sand to a burlap-shaded watermelon stand. There he conferred with the proprietor, Ibrahim Sawaan, 15, who grinned up at him from beneath a grubby red cap emblazoned "Champion Spark Plugs." Lyndon assured young Sawaan that the U.S. has "an abiding and unchanging interest in the independence and integrity of Lebanon," got an uncomprehending smile...