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Torture & Bankruptcy. While still rare, this strain of protest against a regime is being heard more often throughout Eastern Europe. In Hungary, a recent short novel described the torture methods of the secret police and another gave an insider's look at the bolshe vita of Communist fat cats in the early 1950s. There is also a Hungarian version of Catcher in the Rye, in which the author, a 17-year-old schoolboy, admits in disgust: "I can't stand it that the Americans announce the launching of a rocket a month before and the Russians only when...
When pollsters asked West Germans last August if they knew who Kurt Georg Kiesinger was, fully 45% said: Sorry, never heard of the fellow. Last week, 100 days after Kiesinger became Chancellor, the polls showed not only that 96% of all West Germans know their man, but also that 60% think he is doing a good job and only 6% criticize his work. The new fame of Baden-Württemberg's former minister-president is by no means undeserved. Since he put together the unprecedented black-red coalition of Christian Democrats and Social Democrats, Kiesinger has brought...
...people ever heard of Liberator, a monthly magazine aimed at black nationalists, until Writer James Baldwin and Actor Ossie Davis gave it some recent notoriety. Both resigned from the staff with a blast at Editor Daniel Watts. "I think it is immoral," said Baldwin, "to blame Harlem on the Jew." Said Davis: "This is where...
...third time in this century that octuplets have been reported (the others: 1921 in Mexico, 1934 in China) and the first time such a birth has been confirmed. As for those fertility pills doctors suspect of contributing to the recent rise in multiple births, Mrs. Sepulveda had never even heard of them. But she had been taking birth-control pills until eight months before conceiving her octuplets...
...part in Morgan!, she decided to take a stab at pictures. The public got the point all right. To Vanessa's amazement, millions acclaimed her as the most exciting thing the British had produced since radar. Director Antonioni, casting for a British actress to play in Blow-Up, had heard about Vanessa. "I had not met her before," he recalls, "but I looked at stacks of her photos and concluded that she was the one I wanted. But I didn't know if she really would accept the part. After all, it wasn't a very big role...