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Instead of being condemned to an imbecile's life in an asylum, Helen Keller learned to read and hear with her fingers, and by touching others' throats and lips, she was eventually able to verbalize the words she visualized in her mind. At eleven, she was raising money for the benefit of other blind children. She traveled. She wrote stories. She maintained an animated correspondence with writers and clerics; Mark Twain named Miss Keller and Napoleon "the two most interesting characters of the 19th century." At the turn of the 20th, Helen Keller went to college at Radcliffe...
...coherent accounts of Philby's 34 years as a Soviet agent. Even now the full truth is not known, as illustrated by the fact that these four books show discrepancies at critical points. For example, how did Philby, as the net closed around him, escape from Beirut to asylum in Russia? The authors of Conspiracy, a team of reporters from the London Sunday Times, suggest that he made it to the Syrian border in a Turkish truck; then he went to Turkey and walked across the border into Soviet Armenia. In The Spy I Married, his American third wife...
...said that he was aboard the 26 de Julio, a small (943 tons) Cuban cargo vessel that normally hauls freight and cattle between Havana and Montreal. Would the Coast Guard al low the ship to put in to port at Norfolk "to discharge people who are seek ing political asylum...
...small and unhappy saga that official Washington soon called "the Julio incident." Four members of the Julio, determined to escape from Cuba, had taken guns, seized control of the ship and locked the captain and the rest of the crew in the brig. When the four asked for asylum, the Coast Guard consulted the State Department, then advised the Cuban ship to "approach no closer than the three-mile limit." It dispatched two ships-the cutter Point Brown and a seagoing tug-to investigate...
...agencies have been springing up with all the speed and spiel-and sometimes the life-span-of TV spot commercials. In the wake of the new demand for ever more artful, imaginative copy, "creative" men are climbing into the top salary brackets. "The lunatics have taken over the asylum," says Jack Roberts, 48, co-founder of Los Angeles' Carson-Roberts Inc. As a creative copywriter himself, Roberts is delighted with the revolution...