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Correspondent Roland Flamini, who was sunning himself in Malta prior to reassignment from Vienna to Chicago, responded to an urgent cable and within hours was back on station in rainy Vienna. There he kept a sharp eye on events and reactions in all of Eastern Europe and helped to speed files to New York from Prague, where 126 correspondents in the Alcron Hotel vied for the use of one Telex machine and five telephone booths staffed by a single switchboard operator...
...Angeles Times and other critics have assailed the mayor's frequent and protracted absences from the city-trips that have apparently helped boost trade but have kept him away too long from the critical problems in his own backyard. Yorty's most embarrassing gaffe, faithfully recorded on nationwide TV, was his gratuitous recital of possible evidence against Sirhan Sirhan. accused assassin of Robert Kennedy...
...strengthen their case at the summit conference, the Russians mobilized their armies throughout Eastern Europe in a massive and unprecedented show of power. At least 3,000 men, out of the original Soviet force of 16,000 troops who had come to Czechoslovakia in June for Warsaw Pact exercises, kept up their conspicuous bivouac near roads in Slovakia last week. The few Russian units that did leave marched straight to Poland, where they pitched their tents hard by Czechoslovakia's border. Soviet tanks and at least 1,000 other military vehicles suddenly began rolling over the roads in East...
Fear of Demonstrators. In deference to Soviet wishes, Prague kept the arrangements for the summit shrouded in secrecy. The Russians were not only testing the Czechoslovak leaders to see if they can keep anything secret these days; they were also said to be terrified that hordes of Czechoslovaks might turn out to demonstrate and present petitions, as has become their habit...
...curtain. Wolman finally agreed to change the building. Owings flew to Boston with Wolman to arrange the new financing, then back to the capital to get the developer a zoning variance to add an extra floor. A lot of effort, but the grand design for the avenue was kept intact...