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Levin's principals are Gore Taylor, a young American protest singer, and Igor Mikhailovitch, a young Russian protest poet, who meet in Israel as the Six-Day War is about to start. So Gore drives this fantastic ambulance, and Igor fixes a Russian tank captured from the Arabs. They become great buddies, of course, while a lot of studs get their brains shot out. But mainly, the war as here described amid all this profound Israeli scenery is like everybody squirting beer on each other at a fraternity picnic. All the action moves along double time, like a fast...
When in good spirits, as nephew Budu tells it, Stalin ribs the comrades unmercifully. "Viatcheslav Mikhailovitch," he yelled at Molotov during one gorodki game, "you hold the stick like an old woman with a broom!" Sputtered Molotov: "I'd like to see you try to play gorodki with glasses on!" Watching Budenny, the handle-bar-mustached old cavalryman, swig vodka at dinner, Stalin joshed: "Our Marshal goes through the vodka like Suvarov.* Too bad he doesn't resemble Suvarov in other ways...
Life in a Cellar. Vyacheslav Mikhailovitch Scriabin was born 56 years ago, the son of a store clerk in Nolinsk, 480 miles northeast of Moscow. At 16, by adopting the Russian word Molot (for hammer), he became Molotov the Communist-in whose vigorous, resilient carcass was buried Scriabin...
Greatest success of the "underground" forces striking constantly was centered in Jugoslavia where the guerrillas under Gen. Draja Mikhailovitch had won control of 11,000 square miles of former Jugoslav or Montenegrin territory...
From Yugoslavia, where Serb patriots under General Draja Mikhailovitch have been fighting pitched battles with Nazi troops, came word that Yugoslav and Greek "freedom armies" had joined forces, would henceforth fight a unified campaign. Communiques from the Axis lines told of capturing a town from the Chetniks, of the execution of 57 men and seven women for anti-Nazi activity...