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Late one night last April, a Russian-born employee of a U.S. intelligence agency climbed the steps to his suburban Washington apartment. He fumbled with the key-and froze. From the darkness behind him came a tiny rustle of clothing. Then a voice rasped his name.* The man whirled, faced a stocky stranger in a trench coat who stood back in the shadows, his powerful arms outstretched. Again the stranger spoke in Russian: "Don't you know me? I am your brother Volodya." The brothers had been apart for 23 years. Vanya would not have immediately recognized Volodya even...
...Democrat with little affection for Kuchel, is Ohio's conservative Frank Lausche, who was once a victim of Kuchel's occasionally earthy humor. Kuchel came onto the Senate floor one day while Lausche was earnestly orating, slipped up behind him, and hissed into his ear: "Baloney!" Lausche froze, choked, completely lost his train of thought...
...Cannon earned his keep by working as a yard man. Last winter the cold clamped down on Memphis. There was no work and no money, and Gus almost froze. When his stove went out in January, he hocked his banjo for $20 worth of coal. It was the first time that banjo had ever been out of his hands, and Gus Cannon's neighbors had to get used to nights without his music. But just when poverty seemed to have him silenced, at 79, the old man made it as a composer: a group called the Rooftop Singers recorded...
Gates said that the sewage system depends on an accumulation of rainwater to seal off the odor in the pipes. Because this was an unusually cold and dry winter, underground lines froze, forcing the sewers to back...
...Furtado (architect of the ambitious development plan for Brazil's blighted northeast elbow) ended costly subsidies on imports of wheat and petroleum, even though high-test gasoline prices immediately doubled. They raised the fare on Rio commuter trains from 3 mills to 1½?. They limited bank credit, froze steel prices at the government-owned Volta Redonda plant, and persuaded auto, truck and clothing manufacturers to hold the price line. Goulart, who rose to power as labor's pal, even promised a group of industrialists that he would hold wages firm so long as they restrained prices...