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...known that she's pregnant, her mother crinkles her sad but wise eyes and says, "You love him very much, don't you?" instead of calling the police. And the abortionist turns out to be a prosperous-looking physician instead of the usual touchless crone with a bent coat-hanger...
...bestowing of an honorary doctorate on Sholokhov at Scotland's Saint Andrews University in April 1962, the first Russian writer to be so honored in a British university since Turgenev's honorary doctorate at Oxford in 1879. I was born and grew up in Rostov. That coat of felt and goat's wool is surely familiar to me, even though it does not at all belong in any groves of academe...
...Charles Snow's photo in a shaggy, angular Russian coat and called it a "special Russian academic garb" [Oct. 30]. You were wrong. It is the well-known Caucasian burka (pronounced boor-kah), an everyday, all-purpose sleeveless coat originated by the Circassians, Chechens and other mountaineers of the northern Caucasus. In October 1963, Sir Charles visited Russia to receive from the University of Rostov an honorary doctorate of philological sciences, and to be Mikhail Sholokhov's personal guest. It must have been on that occasion that Sir Charles wore the burka as a bit of local color...
...putting the Eisenhower Administration in a bad light, Lyndon's blunder in bringing up the case only highlighted some grave defects in his own security and personnel procedures. Still, Lyndon seemed confident that the Jenkins case could do him no harm, pointed to those reassuring polls in his coat pocket as proof. Even the week after Jenkins' resignation, one nationwide survey showed that Lyndon's popularity had gone up -not down-two points...
...Homburg hat, the Chesterfield coat, the blue suit and the shirt with French cuffs was back driving his Cadillac to his salmon-pink summer house on a bluff overlooking Lake Ontario. Behind him were two months of exhausting campaigning, a 6,000 mile trail that had led him into 148 cities in 40 states. William Edward Miller, 50, the bantam gut-fighter who had been put on the ticket "because he drives Lyndon Johnson nuts," had come home to roost, and not a day too soon to suit him. "The British have the right idea," he said. Presidential election campaigns...