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Sometimes while riding a ski lift to the top of a mountain in the northeast, a quirky furious wind suddenly blasts out of nowhere. A bracing gust howls across a valley, provoking violent rocking of your chair suspended high on the liftline. The wind picks up a lot of light snow and you have to close your eyes. In the next second, while your chair is still rocking, there is no wind at all. A stillness settles. Then, from out of the woods, jumps a white column of snow perhaps forty feet high which seems to be the manifestation...
While most of the folks back home were sweltering in a heat wave, America's favorite fluffhead got caught in a gust of wind straight off the steppes, or anyway at the foot of Gorky Street in Moscow, and found her umbrella abruptly demolished. Goldie Hawn had turned up to "get into some young people's heads" and find out what it would be like to be "the girl from Petrovka." That will be her next role in a movie about a Soviet Holly Golightly who falls in love with an American correspondent (Hal Holbrook). Goldie quickly became...
Last week Moscow abruptly informed Premier Kakuei Tanaka that his sched uled visit to the Soviet capital in Au gust would be "inconvenient." What dis turbed the Japanese government was that Moscow at the same time invited a delegation of Japanese Diet members, including the opposition, to visit Moscow - in August...
...true that some of Lovecraft's stories on the Cthulu Mythos - The Call of Cthulu, At the Mountains of Madness - rank high among the horror sto nes of the English language. But Great Cthulu only knows why perfectly good, independent writers from the late Au gust Derleth to Colin Wilson have seized and elaborated on the Mythos in their work...
This automatic response to any White House request was also demonstrated by the State Department. In Au gust 1971 it cooperated with Hunt after receiving a memo from the White House and two calls from David Young, an Ehrlichman assistant on detached service from Henry Kissinger's Nation al Security Council staff. Young telephoned William B. Macomber Jr., then a Deputy Under Secretary of State. Macomber granted Hunt full access to the most secret "back -channel" communications (meaning only the addressee and sender should see them) between the State Department and its embassy in Saigon for a period...