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...back to the Kremlin talks, Nixon persuaded his Soviet security guards to allow him to get out of his car to greet the several hundred Muscovites standing behind the steel barricades near Red Square. The guards reluctantly let him out in front of the State Historical Museum, and he strode over to the barricades, touching the dozens of hands that were reaching out to shake his. "We don't want another war," someone shouted in English. "Peace is very important," another said, prompting Nixon to reply: "For everybody, the whole world, the Russian people and the American people...
...more and better chances for peace. There were box scores of miles traveled (14,775), records broken (first President in Egypt in 30 years, biggest welcome ever). Nixon called the movers and shakers of Washington in for briefings on the triumph. They rolled up in their huge black limousines, strode purposefully to the Cabinet Room-first the congressional leaders, then the Cabinet and the National Security Council...
Without introduction, the tall, lean candidate in his dark-rimmed glasses and conservatively cut pin-stripe suit, appearing more like a professor than a politician, strode toward the podium. Only a huge photo of him and his 14-year-old daughter decorated the former chapel of a convent in Colmar. Then quickly, his hands clasped behind his back, Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, 48, broke into the pedantic delivery that has become a trademark in his campaign to succeed the late Georges Pompidou as President of France...
...robbers?a black man and four white women-strode swiftly into the Hibernia Bank branch in San Francisco's Sunset district, pulling out semiautomatic carbines from under their long black coats. "Get on the floor, get on the floor," barked the stubbly-bearded leader at the two dozen terrified employees and customers. Two of the women rushed to the cash drawers, while another, in the best Bonnie-and-Clyde style, proudly announced: "We're from the S.L.A." One of the gang gestured toward the young woman who had taken up a position at the middle of the seven tellers' cages...
...winning run crossed the plate on a one-out suicide squeeze play that worked better than expected. Ric LaCivita strode to the plate with the bases loaded and laid down a well-placed bunt. Fran Cronin, who was sent in to run for Joe Mackey, got a good break from third and was crossing home with the tying run by the time Krentzman got to the ball...