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Monthly Outing. He has been dead for 40 years, lying inside a glass coffin in the squat redgranite mausoleum in Moscow's Red Square, where thousands of Soviet citizens queue up to march soberly past his waxy form, guarded by rigid Russian soldiers as immobile as the corpse. Not long ago, when Khrushchev was asked how Lenin's remains were kept looking so lifelike, he replied: "That's easy. We just take him out once a month and re-embalm him." So it is with Lenin's ideological remains. Constantly re-embalmed, retouched, re-clothed...
Died. Peter Lorre, 59, a squat, morose Hungarian actor with a heart of ghoul, who first chilled spines as the psychopathic child killer in the German classic M, moved to Hollywood in 1934 to take such varied roles as Mr. Moto and a passport racketeer in Casablanca, in more than 80 movies was chiefly famed for his bug-eyed, nasal-voiced mastery of menace and the macabre; of a stroke; in Hollywood...
Every afternoon and evening, Alziro Zarur, 48, a squat, balding, onetime actor who now bills himself as Jesus' latter-day apostle, speaks to millions of Brazilians from Rio to the pampas borders of Uruguay. "I am not from left, from right or from center but from above," he says...
When Sorbonne students spot an empty lecture hall, they rush in like beggars after a tycoon's cigar butt. Lucky ones perch on worn wooden benches, using their laps for desks; others stand or squat in the aisles. The rooms smell; the lighting is dim. The typical Sorbonne lecture hall holds only half the students enrolled in a course. Sitting in a remote stairwell just within earshot of the podium, one girl recently sighed: "The other day I raised my head and actually saw the professor...
Marshall, who never got to West Point, first took up soldiering at Virginia Military Institute, where his Pennsylvania twang immediately marked him as a stranger. The lowly "rat" was forced to squat over a bayonet; after 20 minutes Marshall fell and gashed his buttock but dutifully followed the code of silence. Marshall was a mediocre student but in his senior year was elected "first captain...