Another scene describes her working around this time in her office in wealthy, sterile Belgravia, in a "high-backed chair" as in Downing Street, "looking at papers with the help of a huge magnifying glass … underlining, marking marginalia, gathering odds and ends together in files, and then forgetting where she had put them".
The gathering had fewer of the desperate searches that marked earlier gatherings of survivors.
Meanwhile at the other, western, tip of Indonesia, Aceh in Sumatra, security has also been stepped up to prevent celebrations to mark another anniversary: the founding of the Free Aceh Movement, the GAM, on December 4th, 1976.In Irian Jaya, the anniversary was marked by gatherings of thousands of people in Jayapura and other towns.
The Fourth of July often marks the gathering of the clan for the first time since the winter holidays.
These are marked by the gathering of families in the ancestral hometown or at the home of the head of the family.
Thousands of anti-austerity protesters marked May Day, gathering in front of the sandstone building that houses the Greek parliament in Syntagma square.
His predicament explained his and his wife's presence last week in a Chicago conference room whose stuffy, antiseptic air belied the pathos of a gathering marked by slivers of hope and ample uncertainty.
But there is a sense too, amid the easy smiles and good-to-see-you nods that marked the first gathering of the British squad since the Olympics, that home advantage could prove a decisive factor over two days of competition.
The gathering marked the start of this year's AGM season.
The former CBI director general, Lord Digby Jones, has been speaking about the future of the West Midlands, as manufacturing in the region - once known as the workshop of the world - was marked with a gathering of locally-made products.
