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...There are no experts on the Soviet Union," said Air Force Chief of Staff Nathan F. Twining one day last week, "just people with varying degrees of ignorance." For a man just back from a carefully shepherded, eight-day inspection of Soviet aviation, it was a prudent remark. But as a press conference quickly established, Twining's visit to Moscow had led him to some firm conclusions about Russia. The most important: the U.S. is out in front of Soviet airpower and should be able to stay there...
...Captain Michales is a Prometheus bound who prays to God but worships his native Crete. His unsmiling face is a sword set against the Turk. He can spread two fingers in a wine glass and shatter it; his words are blunt, plain and few. He goes on broody, Homeric, eight-day binges, but "wine could never-bring him down." It is clear, as his horse's hoofs strike sparks from the streets, that he is riding for a more classic fall-the fall caused by hubris, the overweening pride of the Greek tragic hero...
Away from a battle zone, Dowling felt AWOL, but in April 1945 he took time out to marry his Chicago editor's secretary, Patricia Louise Shafer, after an eight-day courtship. They had one child, Gordon, now two years...
Last week, as Paris polished its sneers on the eve of a new tourist season, Ranville and his undaunted knights launched a nationwide eight-day "Crusade of Amiability." The national post office issued a special postmark to commemorate the occasion. Schoolchildren gathered in a shivering rain at the Arc de Triomphe to release hundreds of tricolored balloons carrying the message of bonhomie. A squad of pretty girls scoured Paris looking for outstanding examples of courtesy, and that ancient charmer, Maurice Chevalier himself, cut a symbolic ribbon to release the tide of amiability that promised to engulf the land. Even France...
...combat its reputation as an expensive country, France is plugging the low-cost package tour, e.g., an eight-day jaunt from Paris through the Loire Valley, along the Riviera and back for $100, including all transportation, food and hotels. The French national railway now offers a 30% discount on trips of 950 miles or longer, provided that the tourist stays at his destination for six days or more. And the new issue of the famed Guide Michelin, which has always concentrated on quality rather than price, now lists more than 2,000 restaurants where a traveler...