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Closeup, Young neither looks nor acts like a fighting man. He is quiet and soft-voiced, shows anger only by a slight tightening of his lips, a slight glint in his pale blue eyes. Only 5 ft. 6 and weighing only 135 Ibs., his body seems fragile. His thin shoulders are stooped. He looks more than his age: at 50, he could easily be taken for 65. His narrow face is florid and wrinkled, with the kind of puffiness that usually spells dissipation. "My dissipation," says Young, who doesn't smoke and only occasionally takes a cocktail...
Then, well-fed and smiling, they settled back as Victor Shpihun, a 41-year-old shipyard worker, rose. With many a smile and glint of his gold-filled teeth, Shpihun carefully explained why he and the other 169 Canadian residents of many years preferred dictatorship to democracy. It was not that they loved Canada less, said Shpihun, but that they loved Russia more...
Having babies is never easy, but blonde, brown-eyed Ann Barley made it even harder than most. An unmarried Government pressagent, 36-year-old Ann got a maternal glint in her eye a year ago; she had been listening to a Dutch official talk about Europe's orphans. And she had just fallen heir to a legacy. She decided to get a European baby to go with...
...goateed head cocked above his flaring military coat, looked like a blend of a broker who has just made a killing on the Paris bourse and an actor from the Yiddish Art Theater. Stalin, with his low forehead, ferally cautious manner, soft but searching eyes (says Trotsky: "The jaundiced glint of his eyes impelled sensitive people to take notice"), might but for his size (5 ft. 5 in.) have been a heavy from the Grand Guignol...
...violinists is a Sears, Roebuck shoe salesman, another is president of the company that makes Golden Glint Hair Rinses. The tympanist is an investment banker. For 25 years the 109-piece Chicago Business Men's Orchestra has been entertaining their friends, their families-but mostly themselves-with their music...