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...Alberto Sordi brings his sunny southern warmth to this Italian comedy about a frisky fur merchant who discovers firsthand that sex in Stockholm is still...
...Alberto Sordi brings his sunny southern warmth to this Italian comedy about a frisky fur merchant who discovers firsthand that sex in Stockholm is still...
...than to hole up for a ten-hour stretch in his top-floor office at Yale's Hall of Graduate Studies. There, amidst bundles of old laundry and discarded razor blades, he meticulously pored over books, clippings and back issues of Pravda. Russian-speaking Barghoorn knew his subject firsthand. From 1942 until 1947 he was a press attache at the U.S. embassy in Moscow. To avoid trouble, Barghoorn deliberately did not carry a camera during five trips to Russia between 1956 and last March, when he arranged for scholarly exchanges or gathered information for his recent books, Soviet Russian...
...encounter with Chairman Khrushchev that became the subject of headlines around the world was part of a unique project that began last summer, when we decided to sponsor a news tour of Europe for a select group of leading U.S. businessmen. The aim: to give them a firsthand impression of journalists at work and bring them into direct contact with important sources and places of news...
London provided an opportunity to observe at firsthand the political leaders of Great Britain arguing bitterly against each other in preparation for a national election. On the Conservative side the American business leaders talked with Foreign Secretary Rab Butler, Board of Trade President Edward Heath and Chancellor of the Exchequer Reginald Maudling; in Labor's camp they interviewed Party Leader Harold Wilson and Deputy George Brown...