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...energy race." Accompanying Udall to Russia was Poet Robert Frost, 88, whom the Secretary had adopted as his seer ("Udall is poetry-struck," says Frost). Frost chatted with schoolchildren, appeared on TV, talked poetry into the night with young Russians at a cafe while a jazz trio blared away. When Frost suffered a stomach upset, Khrushchev sent over two doctors, then came himself for an hour-long discussion of U.S.-Soviet rivalry in the years to come. Khrushchev told Frost: "We've seen the last war we're going...
...arrests seemed to contradict Nkrumah's original pronouncement that "foreign agents" had plotted his death. Nonetheless, Nkrumah's tame Ghanaian Times reported breathlessly that the "vile trio" had in one fell swoop tried to "ride the wave of the people's patience, throw dust into the eyes of the nation, trample over the leaders' forbearance, and disrupt the cause of the revolution." Thundered Nkrumah's Evening News: "The villains have been unmasked in the persons of the arch-Judas Adamafio, the lean and lanky
Last year the analysts back at headquarters sifted information about three armed robbers, made an educated guess as to where the trio would strike next. Sure enough, the men were picked up right where the analysts said they would...
...Meos were the worst," said robust Grant Wolfkill. "They ran around like wild men, always looking for an excuse to kill us." When they got bored, the tribesmen would fire machine-gun bursts into the cell; the trio were kept in heavy wooden stocks "like Salem witches." Their steady diet: rice and salt. By contrast, cracked Wolfkill, the Viet Minh "did more or less abide by the International Convention for war prisoners-we were at least allowed to go to the toilet." Despite their hardships, the five who came back were fortunate. American officials in Laos have been unable...
...Like a Bird. It was while he was with Denny that Lyman discovered the value of bird calls. One night, he recalls, he had "a little to drink," and when the trio began playing the theme from the movie Vera Cruz, he tried a few experimental squawks. "The next thing you know," says he, "the audience started to answer me back with all kinds of weird cries. It was great...