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...virtual colonies in Eastern Europe to the Bering Strait off the top of Alaska, across two continents and eleven time zones; more than 3,000 miles? roughly the distance from New York to San Francisco?separate the ice fields of the Arctic Ocean from the sun-parched Kara Kum Desert. The 262.4 million citizens of the U.S.S.R. belong to more than 100 ethnic groups and claim descent from Varangians, Turks, Mongols and countless Eurasian tribes. Their government preaches to them, in Russian, about the supreme wisdom of a 19th century German atheist. They, however, speak in more than 100 tongues...
Suppliers cannot keep up with the demand. "I've been out of orange trees for two months, also lemons and kum-quats," says Miami Nurseryman Mark Ancet. "It's just gung-ho," notes Al Muller, at a Wilmette, Ill., nursery. "We're running out of Bibb lettuce, celery, carrots, and we can't get new supplies." In New England, the Finast supermarkets find 40-lb. bags of cow manure (at $1.99 a bag) selling at record rates...
...happened, his employer operated a concert agency on the side, and it was not long before the child of the muses began musing on the music business. He took to it like Barnum to bun kum. Once he billed a sorry troupe of dancers as terpsichorean exponents of "Vice, Horrors and Ecstasy," then hurriedly had to schedule extra performances to accommodate the crowds. Among his clients were Soprano Lotte Lehmann, a young redheaded violinist named Eugene Ormandy, and a troupe of Russian modern dancers, one of whose members, a slim, dark-eyed blonde named Nina Schelemskaya-Schelesnaya, later shortened...
...what mattered were the symbols of exotica that attended the organization, such as the jewel of the order and its Arabic motto, Kuwat wa Ghadab (Strength and Fury), and the special intramural greeting, "Es selamu alei-kum" ("Peace be with...
...Notorious Landlady. "Oyme jus' the parlor mide," says Kim Novak in her best Berlitz cockney. "Are you a sleep-in maid?" asks arch Jack Lemmon, with his eyes doing the twist. "Coo, yew Yanks do kum raht aout wiv it, don't yew?" wuffles the new Eliza Doolittle. "Well, most of it, anyway," says Lemmon, a film comedian who knows how to throw away a line before it deserts...