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...Where else could Sam Oellet, a 59-year-old janitor from Augusta, Me., put on his long-johns and run in the same race with a barefoot 17-year-old? And where else could a fat man in a sweatshirt with MCDONALD'S HAMBURGERS written across the front swap liniment with an Olympic champion...
...Rudolph Ivanovich Abel, a top Soviet spy who had been imprisoned in the U.S. for the previous 4½ years. In this absorbing new book, Lawyer Donovan, the amateur diplomat who later negotiated the release of the Bay of Pigs prisoners, recounts the events leading up to the Berlin swap...
...Powers was shot down over Russia in 1960, the trade winds began to blow harder. Convinced that Abel would never talk and that the trial publicity and four-year prison term had destroyed his usefulness to the Russians as a spy, the Kennedy Administration was willing to make a swap. But since Russia had made no formal overtures, the U.S. conducted its negotiations through Donovan, who worked closely with the Government as a "private citizen." When the New Year's message was received, Donovan was ready...
...fancy do at London's Empire Ballroom. Also present for the loudest cheers of the evening: the Duke of Edinburgh, who struck an I-want-to-hold-your-hand pose with Ringo while flashbulbs plopped like jelly beans. Then the talk turned to books. "I'll swap you one of mine for one of yours," said Author Philip (Seabirds in Southern Waters) to Author John Lennon (In His Own Write). Gulped Lennon: "Surely...
...cast's performance is the ribaldry Schwartz has injected. The greatest ham, and consequently the most enjoyable performer, is Walter Swap, who plays Hanswurst. He cavorts in five different disguises, and his impersonation of a crackly-voiced beggar woman in "I Beg of You" nearly steals the show. Sandra Robbins, as Columbina, sings the eighteenth century melodies beautifully, if a bit too softly, but she has trouble warming to the sex-ridden requirements of the twentieth-century script...