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Congressional District, whose seven counties cover 4,827 sq. mi. from the Red River to Dallas County. Publicly grumpy, egg-bald Sam Rayburn in private is gentle and old-school courteous, presides over the House, at $45,000 per year, with a strange and astute mixture of paternalism and institutionalism. Sam Rayburn has made the House his home, its members his family...
...more knowledgeable about the West than most of his fellow commissars. "Unlike the others," a veteran Western diplomat says of Mikoyan, "he has a rational image of the U.S." Mikoyan has four children, numerous grandchildren. His brother Artem is one of the U.S.S.R.'s top airplane designers (the MI in MIG stands for Mikoyan...
...exact shape of Poland today (as so often in the past) is not the result of nature or of justice, but of the machinations of outsiders. In the closing months of World War II, the Russians coolly announced that they intended to keep permanently the 68,667 sq. mi. of eastern Poland, beyond the so-called Curzon line, which they had grabbed in the piping days of the Nazi-Soviet Pact. As compensation, Stalin proposed to give the Poles large chunks of the provinces of East Prussia, Pomerania and Silesia-all in all, some 38,660 sq. mi. of former...
...decided not to dismiss them, but it also decided not to be oppressed by them. Says an officer of the Chamber of Trade and Industry, "We live by our hands and by our brains-and by other peoples' moods." Down inside, no West Berliner living in 186 sq. mi. of freedom no miles inside the Iron Curtain, can be indifferent to other people's moods, particularly "out there," as West Berliners call West Germany. In Bonn last week, before setting out for Berlin, Adenauer had summoned Socialist Opposition leaders for a rare visit to his Chancellery. All joined...
...came a proclamation of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, in the land of the great Berber warriors who established the medieval Almoravide empire and built the fabled city of Marrakesh. Then to the east there followed tropical Gabon, the mineral-rich Republic of Congo, and big (496,000 sq. mi.), semi-arid Chad. Though France had expected its territories to act as they did, there seemed little doubt that the announcement from Accra had brought on the sudden burst of speed...