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Books, movies and television have long provided a glamorous gloss for the image of the foreign correspondent. Heit has traditionally been a he-dashes from one cosmopolitan capital to another by first-class jetliner or Orient Express-style railway compartment; he puts up at such elegant hostelries as Claridge'...
BORDER CROSSINGS and check-points punctuated the 24-hour Paris to Warsaw train ride. The car had filled up in West Germany with Polish families returning from visits with relatives. Following tearful good-byes, lively conversation picked up in my compartment. Passengers fussed with overstuffed suitcases, fearful that they might...
We made sure we were wearing dark clothes. We put our bursar's cards in the glove compartment, we divided into three groups, and we started looking for Yale.
I have never been pushed off a tall building. But if I ever do. I'm sure I will feel a lot like I did at that moment. Amy had come to get the bursar's cards from the glove compartment.
The next thing Helene knows, she wakes up in a hospital ward. The train has been derailed, the Meyrands killed, and Helene become mother to a healthy boy. What is more. Helene soon learns that she, found asleep in the Meyrands compartment, has been mistaken for Patricia. The old M...