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Nikita Khrushchev bounced back into Moscow like a man who felt he had carried off all the marbles. "That tireless herald of friendship and cooperation among nations," as Pravda called him, had not been so gay since he gave up heavy drinking. Flying direct from Vienna, he arrived just in time to greet Indonesia's wide-roaming President Sukarno, whom he presented with a car and a six-foot bronze statue of a Soviet sportswoman. Next night Khrushchev brought all the top Soviet brass to Sukarno's 60th birthday party, held on the lawn of the Indonesian embassy...
...heaved at their 10-ft.-wide nets. But as the Olympic Club and the Lynwood Athletic Club of Downey, Calif., fought it out for the A.A.U. indoor water polo championship last week, spectators and referee alike were only partially interested in the fancy teamwork, the precise passing and the tireless swimming. They spent most of the time trying to peer into the bottom of the turgid pool, to spot the mayhem they were sure was in progress...
...testimony to his demand for accuracy on a forthcoming Audio Fidelity album titled Sound Effects II. During his campaign in Brooklyn, Frey staged six crashes (by sending one wreck at the end of a tow rope hurtling into another), but the calculated carnage was a minor incident in his tireless pursuit of sound. Audio Fidelity's Frey, 40, has already trapped a hurricane (Donna), recommissioned an obsolete steam engine, provoked a Great Dane to vicious complaint, wooed mewing seagulls with a boxful of chicken guts, eavesdropped at a bullfight. His long-suffering friends are even accustomed to having...
...Jack Kennedy was plainly unbothered. Last week both he and Jackie continued to light up the front pages and the television screens with their tireless activity...
Died. Isaac Frederick Marcosson, 83, tireless, traveling journalist, who scarcely missed a world maker or a world shaker while logging more than 250,000 miles from 1907 to 1936 as correspondent for the Saturday Evening Post; of a stroke; in New York City. Marcosson wrote some 30 books, including David Graham Phillips and His Times, a 1932 biography of the muckraking reporter who was shot down in 1911 while strolling in Manhattan's Gramercy Park by a crazed violinist who imagined that Phillips had defamed his sister in print. Marcosson was a friend of Phillips and the "tried...