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...President of the U.S. flies homeward this week from his eleven-nation world trip, he brings back snapshot recollections of vivid ceremony and unaffected friendliness. Dwight Eisenhower, the world's best-known, most respected statesman, lifted personal prestige and national influence to new highs from Rome to New Delhi to Paris. But equally as important as the President himself was the backdrop of popular reaction to his visits. His trip was a success because the American idea is a success; he had once and for all destroyed the myth that anti-Americanism prowls the world. The roaring welcomes defined...
...Washington looked for the hidden significance of the Dewey visit. As a former New York Governor, Tom Dewey could hardly come out formally against Rockefeller, his incumbent successor. But he is still the Vice President's longtime friend and sometime political cicerone. Best Washington analysis: Dewey's visit was an unofficial but undisguised blessing for Dick Nixon and his candidacy...
...fixing boots botched in the cooperative repair shop and, complained one Moscow newspaper, can afford to fly all 19 members of his household down to a Black Sea resort every summer. A good dressmaker lives equally well, can pick and choose her customers, and takes only those with the best references-and the most money. Minor house repairs are another lucrative source of private income: a Literaturnaya Gazeta reporter estimated that from one-third to one-half of all consumer expenditures for such services goes into private pockets. In Stalingrad he found that a sofa bought for 600 rubles costs...
...payola," Russia has its own Aaron Brenner, chief of Moscow's Bus Depot No. 7. Brenner auctioned off the best routes to drivers, charged them 150 rubles when their buses needed new motors, 200 for a new bus, 500 rubles hush money whenever they had an accident. Not satisfied with all this, he falsified his books, and before the government got on to him, bilked the state of some 700,000 rubles in a single year...
...Africa or of navigating with his unpaid bills. Little daunted, Conrad headed on westward, a 3,700-mile leg of the flight over a very lonely stretch of water, where there is only fragmentary weather information, no radio-navigation aids. It was a grim, dead-reckoning proposition at best. All he had to go by was his compass and a bare outline map of the world. Said casual Max Conrad last week: "I navigated by guess and by prayer, mostly. I'd take out my rosary and say my prayers about once an hour. I made it all right...