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...since Communist Tito broke' with Communist Stalin in 1948, the Yugoslav foreign of fice announced the advent of another set of visiting dignitaries. Due in Belgrade within a fortnight are Party Chief Nikita Khrushchev (his name came first), Pre mier Nikolai Bulganin, Trade Expert Anastas Mikoyan, and a passel of lesser Communist sherpas...
...YELLER-HEADED SUMMER, by Francis Irby Gwaltney (207 pp.; Rinehart; $3), proves once again that a passel of li'l ole mental defectives can be pretty funny if they speak with a Southern drawl. Dim-witted Jack Winters, hero of this first novel, is constable of Walnut Creek, Ark., and a Bedder-which means that his folks were pore white trash who scratched out a living in a dry river bed. But Jack is proud of his gun and his badge; he loves to crank up the siren on the state police car, and his noblest ambition used...
...relying on the West only for those few closely guarded facts which it could successfully steal. But when the Russians change a line, they really change it. As part of the new propaganda drive to persuade everyone that the East and West can cooperate, a passel of Russan scientists arrived breathlessly and unexpectedly last week in Copenhagen on the fourth day of a seven-day gathering of the International Union for the Protection of Nature...
...Giants had to play through without Willie; his draft number came up. Mays applied for a deferment on the ground that he was the principal support of his mother and a passel of nine half-brothers and sisters back in Alabama; it was not granted. He flunked his pre-induction aptitude test. But the Army prevailed nonetheless. With Mays gone, the Giants finished 1952 in second place, 4½ games behind the Dodgers...
Dadgum it! A friend o' mine hand me a passel o' ed'torial pages from the CRIMSON 'tother day, as I wuz warmin' m'self next th' potbellied stove up to th' country store. They wuz mark'd all over with blue crayon like they wuz important ,er somethin...