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...friendly places to grab a bite to eat and warnings about when it's wiser to pack a lunch. There's a game section to keep everyone occupied while waiting in line. a sentimental journey Young readers ages 4 to 8 can learn all about their vacation destinations from Miroslav Sasek's iconic This Is series. Beginning with This Is Paris in 1959, Sasek spent more than a decade writing and illustrating these charming picture-book guides that explore the sights, history, foods and local customs of more than a dozen destinations, including New York, San Francisco, Venice, London...
...SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY Young readers ages 4 to 8 can learn all about their vacation destinations from Miroslav Sasek's iconic This Is series. Beginning with This Is Paris in 1959, Sasek spent more than a decade writing and illustrating these charming picture-book guides that explore the sights, history, foods and local customs of more than a dozen destinations, including New York, San Francisco, Venice, London and Edinburgh. The beloved books have been reissued and updated for a new generation of travelers and their nostalgic parents...
Statements by two military physicians that Miroslav Medvid's defection [NATION, Nov. 18] was motivated by "glitter and gusto" and that he was "immature" prove only that the doctors have been watching too many beer commercials. Their comments are an insult to all victims of Bolshevism. I suggest they administer a psychiatric examination to the officials involved in this tragedy. Peter Lepka Freeport...
...finally left in the company of the Soviet Ambassador last week, but only after the embassy had been ringed by hundreds of Soviet and Afghan troops for five days and its electricity and phone lines cut off. In New Orleans, a dispute continued to simmer over the fate of Miroslav Medvid, the Ukrainian sailor from a Soviet grain freighter who jumped ship twice, only to be returned both times. After Ukrainian-American groups protested that Medvid had been pressured by the Soviets into retracting his request for asylum, Republican Senator Jesse Helms took the extraordinary step of issuing a subpoena...
Such belittling descriptions would not seem appropriate for a man who had triggered an untimely presummit squabble between the superpowers and a clash of wills between the Executive and Legislative branches of the U.S. Government. Soviet Merchant Seaman Miroslav Medvid, 25, had inadvertently created this political uproar on Oct. 24 by leaping 40 feet from the Soviet freighter Marshal Konev into the Mississippi River near New Orleans. When the ship, laden with corn, finally pulled away from its dock last Saturday afternoon with Medvid aboard, a sad personal and political saga that had lasted for more than two weeks apparently...