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...daily said she hated life in the U.S. and longed to return to Russia, Svetlana Alliluyeva felt compelled to reply. Writing from Princeton, N.J., to a friend in Paris, Joseph Stalin's daughter stated she would "never return to Russia." In fact, "last summer, when Moscow began to sling mud at me, I threw my Soviet passport in the fire." Far from disliking the U.S., continued Svetlana, she finds increasing joy in the kindness of Americans and wishes the 16-year-old daughter she left in Russia could meet America's young people. Some day, she would like...
...plays a meddling grandmother on a weekly situation comedy, and Nokku Yokoyama, 36, member of a slapstick comedy team. From the Sato camp came other celebrities. Toko Kon, 70, is a Henry Milleresque Buddhist monk who gained fame as a writer of pornographic short stories, now likes to sling outrageous insults at prominent figures on a television talk show. Hirofumi Daimatsu, 47, coached Japan's Gold Medal women's volleyball team in the 1964 Olympics, and Shintaro Ishihara, 35, is the author of 22 novels on the attitudes of Japanese youth; he drew the largest vote...
What travel-writer's trip to Cambridge, what Harvard Student's stroll to the post office, is complete without pause at that 1967 Xanadu, the Brattle theatre. A grenadine and soda at the Blue Parrot, a bourbon and branch water at the Casa-blanca, and then a Singapore Sling at the Grand Turk. A Union Jack jumbo necktie at Truc and then, sniffing the honey scent of the beeswax candles on the way upstairs, one sits down, coked to the gills but dressed to the teeth, at a Bogie flick to experience the greatest pleasure in the dome: hissing Sidney...
...read with amusement Mr. el-Manssour's letter in which he accused Israel of cowardice, ending, "O David, where is thy sling?" All I can say in response to his letter is "O Goliath, where is thine army...
...total defeat inflicted on the Egyptians mean a welcome end to her troubles? Why is she hesitating? Or will she this time create still another myth-that the Soviet Union is going to send down the Red Army to fight her glorious forces? O David, where is thy sling...