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...military budget. "This," cried Nikita, "may confront the Soviet Union with the necessity of likewise increasing its armament appropriations . . . and the strength of its armed forces." Russia, after all, had reduced its own troop levels. "We have pulled out of all our military bases abroad," he added without a trace of a smile, ignoring the huge Soviet garrisons in East Germany, Poland and Hungary, the supply planes in Laos, and the Soviet arms buildup in faraway Cuba...
...Frol Kozlov. Until Khrushchev started taking Wife Nina along on his trips, Katya functioned as Communism's unofficial First Lady, accompanying Khrushchev to Peking, Prague and Vienna. In those days, Katya was a bit of a juggernaut-shoulders padded, hair pulled back severely in a bun, not a trace of makeup. But Katya had professional as well as social talents in Khrushchev's eyes-she rallied the Moscow party machinery firmly behind him in his 1956 purge of old-line Stalinists who had tried to overthrow...
Handicappers & Treasure Hunters. The library can tell a harried mother what to feed her daughter's new pet eel, or help wives to trace runaway husbands and illegitimate sons to find their fathers. FBI agents constantly thumb the library's foreign and domestic phone directories from 2,700 cities, and many a barroom argument is settled with a quick call to the sober Information Division. About the only thing that ever flustered the library was New York's rage a few years ago over the Herald Tribune's "Tangle Town" puzzle contests. To stem brawls...
Earth & Sun. It was not always so. The academy likes to trace its lineage back three centuries to the Accademia dei Lincei (Academy of Lynxes-named for an animal then believed to have especially keen eyesight), probably the world's oldest scientific society. But in those days, relations between the Papacy and science were far from cordial. The four young men who met in a Roman palace in 1603 to organize the accademia were taking a considerable chance. And trouble came quickly. In 1633, Galileo Galilei, most famous of the Lynxes, was picked up by the Inquisition and compelled...
Snake Man, by Alan Wykes. More remarkable than any of the rare snakes he has captured is C. J. P. Ionides, a legendary eccentric who displays all the instincts of the aristocrat and no trace of the gentleman...