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...truth seemed to be that the Socialists themselves did not quite know. Erich Ollenhauer was flying about Germany in a rented, five-seater yellow Cessna, accompanied by his plump wife Martha and a pressagent. Socialist campaign slogans consisted for the most part of scare posters designed to show that Adenauer was leading Germany to atomic war. "Who Chooses CDU Risks Atom Death!" shrieked one Socialist poster. In Bremen, CDU workers countered with posters that said bitingly: "Who Chooses SPD Chooses Ollenhauer." Nikita Khrushchev had done Adenauer the great favor of pointing out, two weeks ago in Berlin, that Russia...
...started learning over again with an entirely new pianistic technique. She would spend two days mastering four lines. Her playing is unhurried, coolly articulated and generously ornamented, has a miraculous clarity that manages to achieve some of the harpsichord's shimmering brilliance along with the piano's plump sound. Tureck believes that it is unfair to perform Bach on the harpsichord in the concert hall. "Its place is not in the concert hall," she says. "What you hear is a click, if you hear anything...
Golden Boy is a happy little statuary fellow only 30 in. tall, and nobody knows exactly how old he is. He has a plump, round belly, is full of grace, and in a perpetual state of adoration. When anyone picked him up he would jingle faintly as if things were rattling around inside him. Since Golden Boy was made in China in a period when temple priests liked to fill their statuary with symbols, Director Richard E. Fuller and Associate Director Millard Rogers of the Seattle Art Museum grew more and more curious about what was inside. When X rays...
...Faces. Of the old Presidium, only Khrushchev, Bulganin, Voroshilov, Mikoyan, Suslov and Kirichenko remained. Up from the ranks of the alternates came plump, photogenic Ekaterina Furtseva, long a particular Khrushchev favorite, and the first woman ever to reach the Presidium. Along with her came chesty Marshal Zhukov, hero of Berlin, 69-year-old Trade Union Specialist Nikolai Shvernik, Frol Kozlov, a Leningrad party boss who backed up Khrushchev's stand on the Leningrad Case at the 20th Party Congress, and Leonid Brezhnev, who had worked with Khrushchev years ago when he was cleaning out opposition in the Ukraine. Four...
...runs the papers' far-flung readers' service from London's Kemsley House, where his musty office is decorated with postcard trophies of his favorite off-duty pastime-visiting cathedrals. The antithesis of hooch-soaked Miss Lonelyhearts, the wretched male troubleshooter* of Nathanael West's novel, plump Leslie Hubble is a meticulous reporter and devoted do-gooder who works 6½ days a week at his job, sometimes spends months ferreting out a story...