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...Writing hundreds of letters a week, he touts books and movies (current examples: Moss Hart's autobiography, Act One, and the film version of The World of Suzie Wong). Coca-Cola has bought the Hoffman touch, as have Bulova watches, Gambler Frank Costello, and King Zog of Albania. Sometimes called a "suppressagent" as well, Hoffman collects healthy fees from his clients for keeping material out of the papers. Israeli government officials, for instance, recently proposed to shake the earth with a photograph of Jewish Converts Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monroe doing a September Morn scene knee-deep...
...internationally, the Soviets are leading from several weaknesses. There are the natural aspirations of the Russian people, after 42 years of Communist rule, for a better life and freedom; there is Soviet awareness that, while by force and through intermediaries, "it may reign over Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria, Albania, Yugoslavia, Prussia and Saxony, it has not won them over...
...Dwight Eisenhower said last week that the Geneva talks had not yet made enough progress to justify a summit conference. Nikita Khrushchev was just as candid about the lack of progress as he arrived home from a quick tour of two of the most lackluster outposts of his empire, Albania and Hungary. He was still talking darkly of establishing rocket bases in Albania and Bulgaria if Italy and Greece went through with their plans to accept U.S. missiles...
Nikita Khrushchev was thus conspicuously not at his desk on the day his Berlin ultimatum expired. But why else had he flown off to Albania? Rome's Communist L'Unitá volunteered one explanation: "The West should realize that if Khrushchev is hot, he can take a cooling swim in the Adriatic. The Socialist stronghold, which extends from the Elbe to the Red River of Viet Nam, also reaches from the Bering Strait to the Adriatic." Khrushchev himself, who did not go swimming, as usual put his presence to use. Barreling through Europe's wildest and remotest...
Among Communists who played court to the big boss was Red China's touring Defense Minister, who turned up in Tirana. Belgrade further reported that "most" Eastern European satellites had asked and received permission to send planes across Yugoslavia with unspecified passengers for Albania. It could hardly be said that the party big wheels had picked a Communist show place to gather in. But then the Khrushchev party's next stop is Hungary...