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Died. Dr. Robert Runnels Williams, 79, India-born chemist and longtime (1925-46) Bell Telephone chemical director, who in 1910 began independent research into the cause of the Orient's mysterious and killing beriberi disease, in 1934 found that the problem was a lack of thiamine, or vitamin Bl, derived from natural bran that rice-eating populations generally remove when polishing their rice; in Summit...
Long before the Iron Curtain slammed down, the Orient Express had won a reputation as Europe's most exciting train for the countless fictional (and occasionally real) spy plots, love affairs, murders and desperate struggles that took place as it raced across Europe. All the action occurred in railway cars owned by a company with a title to match the grandeur of the Express: Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits et des Grands Express Européens. Wagons-Lits is once again demonstrating its durability by restoring the full Paris-to-Bucharest run of the Orient Express, which...
...express trains bear the name Orient, but only one (the Direct-Orient) makes the 1,889-mile journey to Istanbul that links Paris and the West with the gateway to the East. Wagons-Lits still operates sleeping cars on this train, which goes along a southerly route that bypasses Bucharest...
...with Roger, Lennon yells, "Ringo, sing famous Beethoven's famous Ninth Symphony." Bond's deadly Aston-Martin becomes a Mr. Whippy truck that leaves a trail of thumbtacks, and Alligator's camouflaged House of Parliament--a parody of a parody--becomes the Kaili's sacrificial temple, brought from the Orient to Bermuda...
Soon after World War II, when the image of Russia as America's ally in arms still loomed large and benevolent, one crisp voice from the Orient peppered Washington with warning after angry warning about Communist intentions. It was the voice of Dr. Syngman Rhee, who in 1948, at the age of 73, had finally realized his dream of six decades by becoming the first freely elected President of a democratic republic in Korea. To the consternation of Washington officials, the doughty little Korean wanted from the start to ram a hard fist in the face of the Communists...