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Appearance: Over 6 ft., a lanky, handsome man with square, impassive face, copious greying hair, muscular neck and a brusque manner, obviously accustomed to authority. Tallest of the top Soviet leaders, most of whom date from the days when Stalin liked no one to be taller than...
...Sodas. Bob Krauss, the second youngest of seven children in Kansas, had never cooked, changed a diaper, made up a feeding formula, or burped a baby. Before taking over Patience Dion's chores, he spent a day watching her performance, gaining the children's confidence and taking copious notes. "I had to have a dry run," he explained. "Most women have nine months to get ready for a child. I had one weekend to get ready for four...
...machinery and the people," said pudgy Georgy Malenkov. "We are trying to combine them both, but the people are more important than the machinery." In a round of visits to Britain's atomic research laboratories and power plants last week, Georgy's fellow delegates made copious notes...
...debate in the Legislative Assembly and found it "far above the usual level of the House of Representatives." Gunther considers that the British rule Africa best. Though on the whole they provide jess economic opportunity than the Belgians, less racial equality than the French, they give the African "copious access" to education, justice, and, above all, self-government...
...without being convicted of any crime, goes our voice of comfort and encouragement." For eight years after he became President of 93%-Catholic Argentina in 1946, Strongman Juan Peron got along well enough with the clergy. The Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Santiago Luis Cardinal Copello, publicly prayed for "most copious blessings from Heaven" on the President. But last year the opposition-hating strongman began worrying about clerical influence in organizations of workers, professionals and students, and even more about what looked like the beginnings of a Catholic political party in the devout inland province of Cordoba. Last October the Peron...