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Shortages outside the capital were more severe. At Moscow's nine railway stations, hordes of villagers could be seen lugging bundles of food homeward. This drain on the capital's supplies had led police to cut train service and confiscate food at the terminals. Last week a despondent traveler told TIME Correspondent John Shaw that he had been caught with 175 Ibs. of cabbage he was trying to take to his village. Police seized 150 Ibs. of his haul. "I'll be back next week," he said ruefully. Pravda reported long queues at bakeries in Gorky...
Owls and Mice. But survival for Bogus is a haphazard undertaking at best. An unsuccessful attempt at infidelity becomes a mad, nude chase across the Iowa countryside that leaves Bogus with bleeding feet, if not a bleeding heart. Homeward bound, he falls off a bicycle in front of a barber shop and sardonically observes: "Several sheeted men raised their shaved skulls above the backs of their barber chairs, watching me writhe on the sidewalk as if they were owls-and me, a club-footed mouse...
...Look Homeward, Angel, (CBS Playhouse 90). Adaptation of Thomas Wolfe's novel. 9:30, Feb. 25. Chan...
...debate that ended in the expulsion of the Nationalists was drawing to a close in New York, Chou was entertaining the personal emissary of the U.S. President in Peking. When word of the outcome reached Peking (Henry Kissinger learned of it five minutes after he was aloft and homeward-bound in the presidential 707), Chou celebrated. At an embassy reception in Peking, a smiling Chou moved from table to table, shaking hands and lifting his glass of fiery mao tai to acknowledge congratulations. The favorable vote was "unexpected." Chou said. But, he laughed, "I'm happy, of course...
Later, on the homeward voyage, Worden conducted a more esoteric experiment. Pointing his instruments at X-ray sources far out in the galaxy, he recorded the emissions for clues that might be used to confirm the existence of "black holes"-weird, theorized remnants of huge, collapsed stars. He also awed earthlings-including his two daughters-by taking a televised 18-min. walk in deep space some 200,000 miles from earth to retrieve the exposed film cassettes from the service module's cameras...