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...southern arc of the encirclement of Stalingrad, Western correspondents recall meeting him in a tiny, unheated village schoolhouse, short-legged and big-hipped, like a grizzly bear in a brown greatcoat and karakul hat. He traced with a thick forefinger the movement of the fleeing Germans on a field map, naming their divisions and commanders, all with a cool, precise assessment and without the slightest vainglory...
Down over Sverdlovsk. Khrushchev was plainly deciding to talk tough at the summit. Then came May Day. During the May Day parade in Moscow, Khrushchev and Malinovsky, up in the Red Square reviewing stand, were observed excitedly poring over a military map, and at one point, a messenger was sent dashing off carrying a note scribbled by Khrushchev. The U-2 had been downed over Sverdlovsk...
...sculptures of Gandhara-a name that had long since vanished from the map-lay for centuries in forgotten ruins. It was not until the 1920s, when the great city of Taxila was excavated, that the happy fusion of East and West was generally recognized. Until then, Gandhara's modern British rulers were apt to look upon these remnants of a distant time as meaningless curiosities. Once, when soldiers of the Queen's Own Corps of Guides came upon some ancient reliefs, they decided to use them to decorate the fireplace of their mess hall at Mardan. As might...
...Orval Faubus' stand in Little Rock. The Post's attitude is that it is best to do things quietly, reflecting its motto: "Let facts be submitted to a candid world." Says Mrs. Hobby: "State lines, national lines, rivers and oceans are no more than markings on a map. We want to give our readers the opportunity to know more about national and international problems and how interdependent Houston is on them." With such guidance, Managing Editor Bill Hobby is likely to continue putting out one of the Southwest's better newspapers...
...north or west of the Ohio River. And in these 25, except Indiana and Illinois, death rates from heart-artery disease are below the national average. In more than two-thirds of the soft-water states (east or south of the Ohio, plus Louisiana, Arkansas, Oregon and Washington-see map), the rates were above average...