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...carriers before World War II; its queenly Europa and Bremen IV competed with British and French ships on equal terms. But the war cost the line 99.5% of its tonnage. The task of reconstruction fell to brisk Director Richard Bertram, 55, and pfennig-pinching Co-Director Johannes Kulen-kampff, fiftyish, who personally picks through the company's discarded files to salvage used paper clips...
From its grey stone headquarters at 1 Gorky Street, Moscow, Intourist is run by balding, stocky Vladimir Ankudinov, fiftyish, who has managed to hold onto his job for seven years. Says Ankudinov, with a gold-toothed smile: "I am what you would call a Soviet businessman." He has plenty of business. Intourist runs 18 hotels throughout Russia, has more than 8,000 employees, handles all accommodations, meals, transportation and incidentals for half a million visitors to Russia each year (most of them from the East European countries...
...Henriquez a stocky, fiftyish Italian archaeologist, should know, for he is the curator of one of the world's most unusual museums, devoted solely to war and its bulky artifacts. As other pack rats yearn for stamps, china cygnets, or shrunken human heads, De Henriquez cherishes the debris of the battlefield. Over five decades Collector de Henriquez has spent $12 million of his own money amassing some 100,000 items, ranging from Stone Age spears to Jet Age missiles, from medieval Japanese muskets to Italian army glockenspiels...
...England, and I'd never seen a hummingbird. It took my mind." As for the town, six miles from his house, no more than a score of people have set eyes on Hodgson over the years. His only real contact with the world is his mid-fiftyish, cheerful, Ohio-born wife Aurelia, who works as a clerk in the local wax-paper factory. Hodgson did not even come to town some years ago when he had the local newspaper editor privately print a few of his little chapbooks; he sent his corrections by mail...
...last week's violent welcome for Rountree. Its membership is estimated at 7,000, including 5,000 released from Iraqi jails after last July's revolution. (Nuri as-Said's jails proved a fine recruiting and indoctrinating center.) Key figure in this organization is a shadowy, fiftyish figure known chiefly by the front name Abdul Aziz Sherif. Fleeing Iraq when the old regime tried to arrest him in 1950, he visited Moscow, Bucharest and then Sofia, where the top Middle East Communist, Turkey's Nazim Heikmet, operates. Sherif returned to Iraq last July. Since the Communist...