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Just two and a half hours from South Station stretches Cape Cod, a hundred and twenty miles of vacationland dotted with over ten summer stock companies. From the groups at Falmouth and Dennis with a star on the boards every week, to the groups of "hopefuls" at Provincetown and Chatham, one finds a wide assortment of summer theatre entertainment...
...south coast is a little pebbly, but the eastern Athletic shore is one uninterrupted beach from Provincetown to Chatham. The surf there after a nor'esst storm is the best within a day's travel from Boston. The top side, Cape Cod Bay, has wonderful sand dunes for picnics, especially around Barnstable and Wellfleet; but the water is just too cold for swimming until August...
When dawn broke, as Chatham told the story, all sorts of things happened. The Russian hustled into a Red army uniform, set forth with the Congressman to a Soviet car pool, and got a jeep. Having passed through the Iron Curtain, they drove on & on, mile after mile into Soviet Germany. Brushing past guards, explaining that his companion was an important representative of a satellite nation, the Russian took the Congressman to a newly built airfield, where he proudly pointed out a line of swept-wing jet planes of late design. Then he drove on to an armored infantry compound...
...Bluff. Wasn't he worried that the Russian might be pulling a trick on him? Said Congressman Chatham: "My Russian friend loves America. He wants me to help him get to the U.S., where he would like to settle down on a farm." For four years before Korea, his friend told him, Russia had been pulling the biggest bluff in history. In Korea, the Russian officer said, the U.S.S.R. had lost not only face, but great stores of military equipment which it had hoped to use again in Indo-China and Siam. The Kremlin had also made some very...
...late afternoon before the two friends got back to West Berlin. Gratefully, Congressman Chatham asked if he could do a favor in return. "Yes," said the Russian, "take me to a PX." There Chatham loaded his companion down with nylon stockings, cigarettes, three cans of chocolate sirup, three pounds of U.S. coffee and 15 candy bars, and bade him goodbye...