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...ghost of Joseph Stalin rose out of his granite tomb in Red Square last week and stalked the crenelated walls of the Kremlin with an awesome message for Communists everywhere. Like Hamlet's father, the old dictator gave notice that he was doomed to walk the night and "to fast in fires till the foul crimes done in my days of nature are burnt and purged away." The man who raised the ghost was Nikita Khrushchev, no Prince Hamlet, but now Stalin's clearest heir...
...week the leaders of the U.S. greeted Giovanni Gronchi with unusual warmth and attention. Gronchi had consultations with Eisenhower, dined and wined with Dulles and Nixon, talked international labor with the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s George Meany. Guards of honor presented arms when Gronchi laid a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, and the National Gallery of Art stayed open after closing time to accommodate Gronchi's handsome signora. At the gallery Gronchi told his guides how much he admired its selections from the work of his countryman, Fra Angelico, and then he made a comment about...
...bulletheaded Nikita Khrushchev. She went along with Khrushchev on his junkets to Czechoslovakia and Red China (1954). At the May Day celebrations last year, Khrushchev spotted her standing among the crowd of party officials in Red Square and, before the onlooking thousands, came trotting down from Lenin's tomb to greet her and lead her to a place beside the great. Life has not been quite the same for Ekaterina since...
...honor the "Rambam,"* Israel's Ministry of Religious Affairs last year decided to spruce up the tomb. Plans included a concrete roof and a fence. But when a bulldozer started digging the foundations, workers found bones from other old graves near by. Experts were not sure whether they were remains of Jews, Moslems or Crusaders, and Tiberias' rabbis ordered them buried in unhallowed ground...
...outraged the devout. From their ghettolike quarters in Jerusalem, a band of extreme-Orthodox Jews sallied forth and plastered the city with proclamations calling down the wrath of God on anyone suggesting that the Rambam had been buried in "unworthy company." Hundreds of bearded and ringleted men picketed the tomb to prevent further sacrilege, fasted, paraded through the streets, recited psalms at the graveside day and night...