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What was the name of Florence Nightingale's young assistant who wrote the shocking letter home from the Crimea...
...himself was discreetly spirited away from the airport in a Bentley so as not to intrude upon Nehru's red-carpet welcome by Khrushchev, and he stayed in Moscow only long enough to join Nehru to deliver the Belgrade letter to Khrushchev. Then Nkrumah flew off to the Crimea where his family is vacationing...
...dissolved, and the rest were confined to their barracks in an ugly mood. De Gaulle closed the Foreign Legion's recruiting office in Paris, and the end was apparently in sight for the storied corps that for 130 years had fought France's worst battles, from the Crimea to Dienbienphu. Today's legionnaire is a downright gentleman compared with his counterpart of the old days, who greased his feet, wore no socks, lived on bread, cheese and a quart of red wine. But none ever better earned the nickname "the Legion of Death" than the present (mostly...
Home from the heavens, Major Yuri Gagarin was the toast of Russia. Simferopol in the Crimea threw up a hastily sculpted plaster bust of Yuri. Moscow planned a 287-ft. commemorative obelisk. Yuri's voice in space on an LP record with commentary in six languages was being readied for world sale. Yuri's image blossomed on everything from postcards to pottery. The grateful Soviet government outdid itself: it bestowed on the first spaceman and his household of six a new, four-room apartment...
Tanned and bouncy from three weeks' vacation in the sunny Crimea. Nikita Khrushchev last week returned to Moscow. Portents of trouble began cropping up all over...