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...vote Khrushchev freely out of his job as they had voted Malenkov out before him? Khrushchev fought back, and the old commissars learned that the new party boss swung a new kind of political power. According to an East German radio report, Marshal Zhukov sent out his aircraft to fetch Khrushchev's Central Committee henchmen to Moscow. In the final vote all joined to censure the "antiparty group" except Molotov, who stubbornly abstained. Molotov, the last living collaborator of Lenin; Kaganovich, the first sponsor of Nikita's career; Malenkov, Stalin's designated successor?all were shipped off to obscure posts...
Schulman tells the tale of a Nevada sheep rancher (Quinn), a rough, good-hearted Italian immigrant whose wife has died, and who goes back to Italy to fetch her sister (Magnani) to bed and board. The new wife soon finds out that he is still in love with the old, that he does not want her to be herself, but only to be "like Rosanna." Impossible. Rosanna was a yes woman; Gioia is one of those passionate natures that take time by the forelock and life by the throat. "You look like a slob!" her husband roars...
...though living in the midst of early cubist experiments-French critics called Céret "the Barbizon of cubism"-Manolo would have none of it, once snapped at Picasso, then at work on his cubist Accordionist: "What would you say, Picasso, if your parents were to come to fetch you at the station in Barcelona and found you with such a fright?" Instead, Manolo stuck to the classic tradition, strove to render bullfighters, gypsy singers, peasant women and children with the ring of truth...
...Fare. In Detroit, Cabby Roscoe Damron, 60, heard his passenger mumble "something about having no money," pulled up to a police station, went in to fetch help, returned to find...
Friend Missing. In San Bernardino, Calif., C. W. Bumgardner, advertising for his lost dog, said that she carried her own leash, growled at strangers, was good with children, and would "fetch slippers, coffee, pipe and TV log on request...