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Abruptly deciding to leave Moscow by train six days early, Khrushchev dropped in en route to see Poland's Red boss, Wladyslaw Gomulka, who was so surprised by the visit that he didn't even have time to deck Warsaw's streets with welcome banners. But Khrushchev had more on his mind than just a social call. The pair disappeared to an isolated hunting lodge in northern Poland to confer over the grave issues on the Berlin agenda. One is West Berlin, where Allied troops are still entrenched more than four years after his ultimatum that...
...ranges widely and perceptively over ideas and legend. It may light on the aging Admiral Christopher Columbus, appearing on deck in the darkest watch of night "hollow-eyed and crumpled, like a dry, wind-driven, scurrying leaf." Or on Diogenes: "His castle was an upended winevat by the gates of Corinth. Alexander the Great called on him there. All radiant, the Conqueror leaned down across the neck of his white charger, doffed his golden helmet and inquired what he might do for Diogenes. 'Move on,' Apollo's man suggested. 'You're in my light...
...they carried no proscribed material. Navy planes and ships also detected and tracked half a dozen Soviet submarines. When the subs surfaced to recharge their batteries, they were politely hailed by Russian-speaking U.S. interpreters, then permitted to continue their voyage. One destroyer gathered a Dixieland combo on its deck, blared a jazz greeting across the water to a surfaced sub intruder. The Russians grinned like kids...
Nearing the Cuban mainland, I reached my descent point. The Voodoo nosed over and I went "down on the deck." At this low altitude I was undetected by the long-range radar. The weather in the lower altitudes was broken cumulus, or scattered fluffy clouds, with scattered rain showers. Sea haze interfered to a small degree with my visibility. But it was good enough that I easily spotted my preplanned landfall point. It was a green, marshy outcropping of land...
Scarcely an inkling of this filters through Rod Steiger's Ahab. He thumps, rants and bellows in good voice, but he is merely Captain Bligh, shifted from the quarterdeck of the Bounty to the dooms-deck of the Pequod...