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...About the Kienholz exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum [April 8]: Thanks for letting us see just what was in that Back Seat. Now we know what we didn't miss by not driving across town to get a peek...
...days. Bulgaria is plugging a two-week stay on the sunny Black Sea coast for $91, including air fare from Vienna. Another popular Vienna excursion: down the Danube by hydrofoil for a weekend in Budapest. In Berlin, Checkpoint Charlie has become a bustling portal for tourists who want a peek behind the Wall. But of the major writers, only the Hungarian-born Fodor seems to be aware that the Iron Curtain exists; Fielding dropped all his Eastern European sections...
...frantic, seriocomic science-fiction epic that had strained Washington's relations with Spain, given Soviet propagandists a rich fallout of anti-American gibes, indelibly affected the life and folklore of thousands of Spanish campesinos and, by week's end, allowed the world at large its first peek at an H-bomb...
While Harold Robbins (The Carpetbaggers) was writing The Adventurers, Leon Shimkin, his publisher, took a peek at a half-finished page and asked what happened next. "I don't know," replied Robbins. "The damned typewriter broke. I'm waiting for a guy to fix it." Fixing the typewriter was Robbins' second mistake; the first was writing the book...
...forced to land in Kiev; Czech Party Boss Antonin Novotny had to wait 16 hours in Leningrad for the Moscow fog to lift. Once they arrived, the delegates wandered the city like conventioners anywhere, clicking pictures of the Spassky Gate, shopping at GUM, or lining up to peek at Lenin, whose tomb was banked in flowers and bedecked with signs reading "Glory to Communism." Others belted vodka in their freshly painted hotel rooms and watched the proceedings on television, or listened to highlights of the Congress broadcast in 54 languages, including Zulu, Nepalese and Quechua-a language spoken by Indians...