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First to arrive this Friday will be Nikita Khrushchev and his plump, matronly wife Nina, aboard a special train from Moscow. After meeting Austrian officials and inspecting an honor guard, the Khrushchevs will motor to suburban Purkersdorf, where the Russian embassy maintains a comfortable villa. Next morning, by jet from France, President Kennedy and Jacqueline are scheduled to touch down on Vienna's Schwechat airfield. After exchanging amenities with Austria's President Adolf Schärf, the Kennedy motorcade will wind through the heart of Vienna and to the U.S. embassy residence in suburban Heitzing, an iron-fenced...
...impossibility of reproducing this charming collection here for it is impossible to describe, in mere prose, the delightful abandon of The Other Young Man--A Class Day Romance or the stern moral of The Knobby Sophomore. There are witty tours de force, such as The Episode, (It was the plump conductor,/On the Friday-night last car,/Who told the tale I now rehearse,/When proffered a cigar.) For more substantial fare, the reader might prefer A Yarn, which contains such stanzas as the following: For six long weeks we drifted on, we had nor food nor water...
...before he spotted his quarry: a green-and-grey bird with red-hooded eyes, perched comfortably on a pine branch. Johnson's double-barreled shotgun shattered the morning, and the bird dropped. After six years of trying, the hunter had finally bagged his first Auerhahn-the plump European grouse (English name: capercaillie) so rare that it is verboten to shoot more than one in a lifetime, so elusive that only the most persistent hunter ever brings home his quota...
...women. They have to grow up emotionally. After they've kicked, they're like children, and they have to be told to turn off the lights, flush the toilet, keep their fingers out of lamp sockets." Such, for example, is Synanon's youngest member, a plump girl of 19 who was trapped by narcotics at 13. After eight months at Synanon, she finally had the courage to raise a shaky voice to sing with a four-man musical combo that is a feature of Saturday night socials. Her emotional triumph won a thunderous ovation from the crowd...
...ghosts walked in Rome, as 200 admirers gathered to hear British Blackshirt Sir Oswald Mosley, 64, plump for a fascist Europe and African apartheid. In the dreamworld process of carving out a united and expanded Europe independent of cold war blocs, Mosley announced that "South Africa, part of Rhodesia, the Sahara and Algeria would belong to us. Blacks, if they like, could remain in the white zone-but without voting or civil rights. I think they would make out well just the same." On hand to introduce Sir Oswald at the neo-fascist rally was Expatriate Poet Ezra Pound...