Two more
ticker tape parades followed in Chicago and Los Angeles that day before President Nixon hosted an official state dinner in the evening - a step up from the freeze-dried beef and veg they had dined out on in space.
The parade is named for the strands of
ticker tape that used to be showered down from nearby office buildings.
Wednesday's
ticker tape celebration is just the first stop on a protracted victory lap that will send the team across the United States in the coming months.
With the help of vibrant
ticker tapes, attracting customers has become much easier.
For her
ticker tape parade and audience with President Aquino this coming week, she will be wearing ternos by Albert Andrada, the same Filipino designer who did her sleeveless royal blue gown made of silk gazar, which she wore to the Miss Universe finals last month in Las Vegas.
According to Wikipedia, a ticker-tape parade is a "parade event held in a populated urban setting, allowing large amounts of shredded paper (originally actual
ticker tape) to be thrown from nearby office buildings along the parade route." It takes a lot of planning and funding to pull off something of this magnitude on the streets of New York City, which is why these types of parades have only been reserved for the city's championship pro-sports teams.
And leading their
ticker tape charge towards glory were attack partners Ossie Ardiles and Mario Kempes.
In this region, the indefatigable war in Syria, now into its third hopeless year, is causing tens of deaths a day of men, women and children which, abjectly, have been reduced to
ticker tape news.
In his visit to America in October 1923 he was given a
ticker tape welcome in both New York and Chicago - acknowledging the "Man who had won the War".
SOME names are flashed in brazen font sizes when the credits roll out, but others are lost in the
ticker tape of names that comes at the end; these are of the people working behind the scenes.
But he still took part in their celebrations, with his daughters Grecia and Alma seen running onto the pitch to play in the
ticker tape after Spain were crowned European champions by defeating Italy in the finals.
Ocean Countess had sailed from Liverpool at 4pm on Tuesday following a major,
ticker tape civic reception and send-off from the Countess of Derby and newly-elected Mayor Joe Anderson.
The film ends with a close-up of the object in the museum, its
ticker tape in silent motion.
