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Obviously enjoying his role as tour director, the Soviet boss jokingly pretended to the newsmen that silk curtains down one wall were covers for his bookshelves. Then he parted the curtains to reveal double glass doors leading to a private hideaway that included a TV set, a refrigerator and a medicine cabinet. "This is where I usually eat," he said. "You see this little couch in there? If I get a chance, maybe I can get a nap there." Brezhnev added that he spent "a terrifying amount of time" in his offices-one in the Kremlin, another on the opposite...
...hunt ball whose jacket fails to fit. Alas, The Upstart stipulates that exactly this sort of class embarrassment can still drive a dated Angry Young Man to organize ten years of his life so that he may debauch the daughters of the neighboring lord of the manor in their silk-sheeted beds, wipe out the son's inheritance at roulette and, with a nasty sneer, take over the manor himself...
Only her memories have any radiance. She thinks of riding through a misty forest, of a broad hat ribbon of black silk bought for her as a present by her husband, of a holiday with her family, all of them together in a small hotel room. Sometimes there are only bright flashes of objects recalled: a pair of spectacles, a boat, a book, a favorite...
...fueled Japanese inflation by engaging in widespread land and commodity speculation. A government study released this month accuses the six biggest trading houses of spending more than $2.5 billion in the past 18 months to buy up and hoard scarce supplies of land and such commodities as rice, wool, silk and soybeans. Prices of all these things have risen, and though the trading houses deny the charges, consumer tempers have gone up, too. Recently, carpenters who were laid off because of a lack of lumber demonstrated in Tokyo, brandishing placards that read: DOWN WITH SPECULATING TRADERS...
...Mark Silk returns to his old haunt, Adams House, for a flute and lieder program. Mark, one of the best flutists around Harvard for some time, is often remembered for his funny and incredibly diffident speeches requesting spare change to keep the Adams House Music Society running. K.T.H...