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...Ambassador to Moscow, reporting on the rise and fall of Premier Georgy Malenkov, the ascendancy of Nikita Khrushchev, the Suez crisis and the Hungarian revolution. Khrushchev apparently loved to trade quips with him. At a diplomatic party, the Russian dictator once remarked to Bohlen that Soviet Defense Minister Marshal Georgy Zhukov was putting away the refreshments "as if he had starved for a week...
Nothing was impossible on oldtime radio. The endomorphic William Conrad (TV's Cannon) could have been the lean, rangy Marshal Dillon of Gunsmoke. Midgets walked the earth in those days-voicing the roles of children. Babies were enacted by women who specialized in gurgling noises. Fire was a sound-effects man crinkling cellophane; thunder was a copper sheet vigorously shaken; rain was birdseed falling on paper; a galloping horse was two coconut shells rhythmically handled...
...last novella, "The Condominium," is about a man who is very much like the condominium he lives in. Marshal Preminger lives in a complex of towers that "only sell to the right sort." In the same manner, he is cut off from himself: "Secretly, he was niggered, PR'd, chinkified." His apartment is "an investment to protect," just as his answer to the classic question, "To be or not to be, you schmuck," is that "if you pay and pay, eventually they must give you something for your money." Preminger is finally overcome by his 37-year-old virginity...
...Arabia-as well as Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba. But the key city was obviously Cairo, and Kissinger's 32-hour stopover there was just as obviously a huge success. After a three-hour discussion with Sadat, who was wearing the uniform of an Egyptian army field marshal, Kissinger and the Egyptian President emerged smiling from the Tahra Palace to face a swarm of skeptical newsmen. Sadat was asked what he thought of the progress of war and peace in the Middle East. "I want to have an answer to that from our good friend, Dr. Kissinger...
Lagging Behind. The crux of Medvedev's argument is that in the long run "the basic impulses for democratization of the U.S.S.R. must emerge from Soviet society itself." The right kind of Russian leader, he implies, could marshal enormous support "from below" because of widespread discontent over "the slow pace of economic, social and cultural progress, the bureaucratic system, mismanagement, lack of information and the lagging behind Western countries in many respects." Medvedev fears that pressures from the West could backfire and strengthen the hand of regressive elements. Indeed, he observes that there has already been an alarming "shift...