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Spilling the Story. When Kovac's assistants told him what had happened, he not unnaturally hit the ceiling. He complained to Bliss, who said he would look into the matter. Next morning, Kovac came to work, found that a crude refinishing job had been done on his desk: some of the jimmy marks had been removed, but others remained. Whereupon Kovac called a Columbus newspaperman and spilled the whole story. Kovac also denied that he was joining the Free Society Association...
...needed to supply only small units, it would be easy to get enough from Hanoi. But we have to supply a million people-V.C. political cadres as well as soldiers. We grow our own food. We have ordnance depots in the jungle where we make weapons-crude but serviceable." Besides, as he put it, "we get stronger every time there is a coup in Saigon and more and more military men are put in jail or flee the country...
...View of Vesuvius. Then, suddenly, came fame. Chekhov liked his early stories; Tolstoy was delighted by his crude force ("You . . . are a real peasant!"). Moscow's intelligentsia embraced the tall, stooped figure in high boots and belted black tunic. Gorky's wildly onomatopoeic Song of the Stormy Petrel became the battle anthem of the revolution, and soon he was hip deep in politics: setting up capitalist pigeons for Lenin to pluck, polemicizing both for and against the Bolsheviks. During the Leninist purges following the October Revolution, Gorky used his special relationship with Lenin to save many writers...
...China and other Communist countries at a price Castro claims to be "something over 6? per lb." This trade is strictly barter, and the Russians are notorious for their markups. Compared with what they would pay in the West, the Eastern European satellites shell out 59% more for Russian crude oil, 66% more for coke, 36% more for lead. Experts believe that Castro takes a similar beating...
...precaution that must be taken against them, says the panel, is to quarantine them rigidly for at least three weeks. But Deputy Surgeon General Dr. David E. Price, a member of the panel, believes that even this inhospitable welcome will not be enough. Says Dr. Price: "Quarantine is a crude approach to a problem of this sort. I would not feel safe in placing a large part of my faith in it as a security method...