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Becket does not succumb to the temptation to build drab hatbox or birthday-cake buildings; he tries to give each client a distinctive building. Yet he does not kowtow to his client's every wish: when a New York company asked him to design a building similar to Capitol Records', he turned it down on the ground that the building would not fit its needs...
...successful man; she is also probably the mistress of Karlinsky, the philosophizing public defender. Marina procures an abortion for no reason except that motherhood might spoil her figure. Mad with rage when his wife brutally tells him of this, Globov smashes everything in their apartment-only one birthday present, a bust of "The One." "The Master" (i.e., Stalin), being miraculously preserved. In revenge, Globov sends a doctor he suspects of having performed the abortion to the Kolyma River forced-labor camp. Actually, in a satirical parallel to the "Doctors' Plot," Rabinovich is innocent...
Fetid Mysteries. To middle-class residents of Rio and São Paulo, the fetid favelas are cities apart, mysteriously alive but best not entered. In her book, Carolina tells them what life there is like. She recalls that for her daughter Vera Eunice's birthday, she dug a pair of shoes out of the garbage. "I washed them and gave them to her." Of the death of a two month-old boy in the favela, Carolina notes: "If he had lived he would have gone hungry." She says, "How horrible it is to see your children...
Inviting himself to a three-day 60th-birthday celebration for Kekkonen, Khrushchev at first showed no signs that he was really trying to be ingratiating. At a presidential luncheon, which the Finns hoped would be off the record, Khrushchev told the Finns that Russia definitely intended to make it her "business" what...
Since the end of her 50-year reign as Queen of The Netherlands in 1948, the birthday of Wilhelmina has no longer been celebrated as a national holiday. But as she reached 80, a burst of nostalgia swept through the flag-bedecked land. Begged an Amsterdam newspaper: "Give us back that Aug. 31st. Let us always celebrate the Queen's birthday on that day." Strong-willed as ever, Wilhelmina insisted on a simple family gathering, and her daughter made a radio request for privacy. Said Queen Juliana (whose own April birthday has never quite assumed the same significance): "When...