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...wife and infant son. In quiet fury he hired a plane (for $6), had 15,000 circulars printed (for $31), flew over the city and dropped them. They read: "Bailing out with no place to land. Had an heir. Got the air ... Anything, anywhere . . ." He managed to get a three-room apartment...
...river Don, deep in Cossack country, in the tiny village of Veshenskaya, lives gentle-mannered Mikhail Sholokhov. There, under the straw which roofs his three-room cottage, Sholokhov watches the great river swell and wither with the seasons and writes novels (such as And Quiet Flows the Don) which are the closest approach to enduring literature that revolutionary Russia has produced. An impressed American once said of Sholokhov: "He writes for no censorship except truth...
...complaints was almost wistful: "If I don't get out of the hospital, for heaven's sake see that the next governor of Michigan has a place in which to live." The state has no governor's mansion. Governor Sigler lives with his wife in a three-room suite in the Olds Hotel across the street from the Capitol in Lansing. He said it gives him "cloisteritis...
Party-Liners. In a three-room flat in Höchst, outside Frankfurt, sits Peter Fischer, a tubby, earnest little man who spent a lifetime in the parties of the working class-first the Social Democrats, then the Communists. He helped form the Frankfurt city government when the Nazis fled...
Down Mexico Way. But Subway Sam had not quit. From his three-room suite in Mexico City's gaudy Hotel Reforma, Rosoff continued digging into 1) the earth and 2) politics. Last July he completed a $10 million aqueduct in Puebla, Mexico for the Mexican Government. Now he is building a $45 million steel mill for Paul Shields, another contractor, who will own and operate the mill. He bought controlling interest in a lumber company in Chihuahua. Last summer he teamed up with Mexican bankers, raised $3½ million and bought control of the 500-mile-long Mexico North...