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Last November the Soviet literary magazine Novy Mir caused quite a stir by publishing One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch the first novel of an obscure mathematics teacher and former Red Army officer, Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Released with the express permission of Premier Khrushchev, One Day is a powerful, often humorous account of life in Stalin's forced labor camps. Translator Max Hayward, among others, hailed the novel as a "literary masterpiece" when it was published in the West several months later...
...city from which journalists are always fading into the desert for weeks at a time, the prolonged absence of a correspondent seldom creates much of a stir. But last week Philby's disappearance had become the subject of international investigation and was rattling a twelve-year-old skeleton in the closet of Britain's Foreign Office. For Philby had been accused in the House of Commons of being the "third man" in the 1951 defection to Russia of Communist Spies Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess...
...comfortable income of ?2,000 a year "was betraying his class if he employed fewer than six women servants and five menservants; middle-class ladies in their 90s could boast that they had never made a pot of tea in their lives, a wealthy Englishman had a Frenchman to stir his soup, another Frenchman to comb his hair, an Italian to make his pastry, and half a dozen Englishmen to iron his Times, and his wife had a Frenchwoman to powder her back and an Englishman to carry her prayer book...
...necessarily narowly based. Social Credit has been fortunate enough to add a strong rural Quebec-oriented wing to the party, for the Western French have been especially cool to Caouette, claiming that he has no understanding of the French situation on the Prairies, and accusing him of trying to stir up Anglo-French trouble where it does not exist. The NDP spread the 19 seats it won in the last election over only three provinces, and 16 of their victories were in Ontario and British Columbia. Their support is limited to regional pockets, mainly of an urban-industrial nature...
...sense of grandeur wounded by a Brazilian ultimatum to clear French lobster boats out of Brazilian waters, he dispatched a warship to put an end to such nonsense. Brazil responded by canceling sailors' shore leaves, ordering units of its own fleet to sea. There was an uneasy stir in foreign ministries in Paris and Rio de Janeiro; among Brazilians there was talk of breaking diplomatic relations, even of asking the U.S. to invoke the Monroe Doctrine. Headlined Rio's O Dia: WAR IS IMMINENT...