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...Catherine actually at the point of deposing Potemkin? With a cool display of indifference, the prince spent most of the past month in a leisurely tour of his southern dominions. He has no intention, however, of staying away from the capital indefinitely. On his return to St. Petersburg, he is planning to move out of the Winter Palace?but only to a hotel near the Hermitage, which is connected to the palace by a private passage. Indeed, some court sources suggest that it was Potemkin himself who actually selected Secretary Zavadovsky as Catherine's new adjutant general because he knows...
Methodism began when Oxford-trained John Wesley, newly back from a missionary tour in Georgia, felt his heart "strangely warmed" during a reading of Luther's preface to Romans at a service in London in 1738. Unlike the usual Anglican priest, Wesley set out to spread assurance of salvation to Britons of all classes. Still indefatigable at his 73rd birthday last month, Wesley also insists on "doing good of every possible sort" for the needy. He requires a puritanical code of his flock: no swearing, Sabbath work, buying or selling liquor, brawling, or wearing of rich apparel...
...summit was an outgrowth of Kissinger's recent tour of Black Africa. He became convinced that the Vorster government was the key to any peaceful solution in the region, a point also made by several of the black leaders he talked with. Vorster, who recently met with Prime Minister Ian Smith, had planned to be a surrogate envoy for Rhodesia. He intended to warn Kissinger that as long as force and black terrorism are being used against the white-controlled regime, the Smith government will fight on to the bitter...
Then southward, first for a stop in antebellum Charleston, where Twain insists on renting an electric boat to tour the ricefield bogs; and Savannah, Ga., with its quaint cobblestone streets and a gracious populace that calls outsiders "visitors," not "tourists." In New Orleans they stroll through the somewhat scruffy but genteel French Quarter (prostitutes will stare from their wrought-iron balconies). Again, at Twain's insistence, they pause at a Dixieland jazz joint and later dine aboard one of the Mississippi steamboats...
...Rapid City, S. Dak., gateway to one of the nation's most remarkable monuments?Mount Rushmore's great granite faces of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. A local menu offers buffalo burgers, which are indifferently appreciated until they see a herd of live buffalo in Custer State Park. Tour Guide Twain also takes his friends to Dead wood, the old cowboy town where Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane did things together that went unrecorded in children's schoolbooks. The main street is largely a series of tourist traps, but the three are intrigued by a helicopter lifting felled...