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Tweeds & Transistors. As for the Russian people, they savored their longest holiday ever from the rigors of socialist labor: four days. They attended dinners in restaurants and homes and shopped for luxuries especially imported for the occasion, including British tweeds, Italian shoes and Japanese transistor radios. In Moscow, they rose...
Wall posters depicted a gargantuan Arab crushing a tiny Israel beneath his boot. Khaki was the predominant color among the milling crowds in the souk (bazaar). Most of those in the street seemed to be either policemen, soldiers, or members of one or another of Syria's plethora of...
It was a chilly, gray Friday in Houston, and Clay had been inside the induction center for hours. Newspapermen and assorted fans were milling around. Then the colonel came out and told them what they had known would happen all along. Cassius Clay had refused to step forward when his...
There was a U.N. flag, a Communist flag, a Ho-sheet, and a Mona Lisa poster--but no one was feeling serious. There were just a lot of people milling around doing a total of nothing for at least four hours. It kinda restored your faith.
"Give Us Bread!" The first sign of spontaneous combustion occurred when workers in Petrograd's giant steelworks demanded a 50% wage increase. They were turned down and promptly went on strike; 40,000 of them fanned out through the city urging other workers to strike as well. Thousands of...