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...Neutralist" Prince Souvanna Phouma pleaded indigestion caused by eating fermented, raw deer liver-a Laotian delicacy-and flew to Italy to inspect a prospective son-in-law, then motored to the French Riviera to inspect a modest villa he is building. He planned to stay in France until his daughter's June wedding...
...Law of Big Numbers. Evtushenko has powerful friends at court, notably Voronov, a member of Pravda's editorial board, and, through him, Izvestia Editor Alexis Adzhubei, Khrushchev's son-in-law. Another influential supporter is 71-year-old Novelist Ilya Ehrenburg, whose 1954 novel, The Thaw, gave history's chapter heading to destalinization. In 1960 Evtushenko rated a passport, has subsequently wandered widely in Western Europe, Africa and elsewhere abroad. On two trips to Cuba he gathered material for a movie scenario, visited the house where Hemingway wrote...
...they would like to do more talking and smiling. Off to Paris went White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger for a meeting with Mikhail Kharlamov, press officer of the Soviet Foreign Ministry. And into Washington, at President Kennedy's invitation, flew Aleksei Adzhubei, editor of Izvestia and son-in-law of Premier Nikita Khrushchev...
...meanwhile, pictures of Albania's Enver Hoxha, who is the other symbol of the Stalinist-Chinese line, appeared on posters all over the city. Billboards proclaimed "eternal friendship" for "heroic Albania," the country that Khrushchev seeks to put beyond the pale of decent Marxist society. Alluding to Son-in-Law Aleksei Adzhubei's Washington visit, the Red Chinese press implied that members of Khrushchev's own family were consorting with criminals-the "gangsterlike and reactionary" Kennedys...
...lawyer who. like almost everyone else of prominence in the Dominican Republic, served Trujillo at one time, but broke with him and helped organize the powerful opposition National Civic Union. One of the council's first actions: to fire Trujillo's diplomat-playboy and onetime son-in-law, 52-year-old Porfirio Rubirosa ("I have loved, and been loved by, some of the world's most beautiful women") from his $36,000-a-year post as the "inspector of embassies...