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...Kremlin's quasi-barbaric, Byzantine splendors, caught with eloquent precision by David Douglas Duncan's camera. This glittering hoard-jeweled scepters and prayer books, imperial gowns and priestly vestments, carriages and thrones-was buried art treasure until Duncan wangled Khrushchev's permission in 1956 to roam the Kremlin's history-haunted, relic-strewn halls and cathedrals with his Leica...
...skindiver will readily admit, his sport is almost the singlehanded creation of a lean (6 ft., 154 Ibs.). visionary Frenchman named Jacques-Yves Cousteau. He is, all in one. its pioneer, foremost promoter, prophet, and poet. As the developer of the Aqua-Lung, he set divers free to roam in the kingdom of the fish. With his book The Silent World (1953). he became diving's foremost philosopher. The prizewinning film made from the book opened the world's eyes to the magic world under the sea, sent both scientists and pleasure seekers hustling for masks and fins...
...seems to have no permanent address but is often called "The Human Mailbox," an earth-blanketing pressagent more interesting than many of his clients. Onetime Manhattan p.r. man and for 20 years critic and columnist for the Hollywood Reporter, Irving Hoffman disengaged himself in 1952, began to roam all continents as a sort of gypsy flack. He is or has been everybody's buddy-from Wendell Willkie to Polly Adler, Truman Capote, Pablo Picasso, ferry boat captains, prostitutes, J. Edgar Hoover, the Maharani of Baroda, and countless men of the cloth...
...Lippincott; $4.95), belongs to the growing literature of the A-cum-H-bomb jitters. As the book opens, it is early in the 32nd century A.D. Thermonuclear warfare has made the North American continent a human and cultural desert. Misshapen biological monsters and primitive nomadic tribes roam the land, while a few neofeudal barons control certain territories-for instance, "Texarkana." The only oases of learning in this new Dark Age are the monastic orders of the Roman Catholic Church, which has miraculously survived the holocaust of the "Flame Deluge," albeit with a "New Rome." The desert monastery around which this...
...Roam the seas at speeds and depths far beyond enemy search ability...