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Feodor's mission is psychological tug-of-warfare with Mikhail Gorin, an old and honored writer who godfathered the revolution back in Czarist days, but refuses to toady to Stalin. Gorin, the titan of the title, is intentionally modeled on Russia's late great writer, Maxim Gorky, and in chronicling his fall Author Gouzenko stages scenes with other Russian VIPs, e.g., Stalin, Malenkov, Beria (who wears the name Veria, plus the identifying pince...
...Misri's trouble began when Strongmen Mohammed Naguib and Gamal Abdel Nasser started their tug of war last March (TIME, March 8). The Aboul Paths and Nasser had long been friends, but the friendship shifted as rapidly as the Egyptian political winds changed. Al Misri demanded Nasser follow the Wafdist political line. When Nasser refused, the paper savagely attacked the brothers' old friend and his government. In court last week the government's prosecutor accused the Aboul Fath brothers of more than national disloyalty. Hussein was charged with intimidating public officials to get the government...
...through the seemingly impenetrable Sierra, Gheerbrant needed the help of local Indians. His principle was nonviolence, his method diplomacy. Sometimes negotiations began with a bow and arrow aimed at a white man's heart and ended with Gheerbrant allowing savages to tug his beard and strip him of his possessions. But his supreme instrument of diplomacy was a Mozart symphony. Military marches left the Indians impassive; Louis Armstrong's trumpeting failed to send them; but Mozart always soothed the savage breast. "Such music." Gheerbrant writes, "did not . . . clamp down a mask of fear on [their] faces ... It opened...
...Russian guards dragged Evdokia through the gates while the mob, now 3,000 strong, chanted "Don't let her go." Trying to smile for photographers, Evdokia wept instead, covered her face with both hands. Scores jumped the fence onto the field, broke past police lines to tug at Evdokia and strike at her guards. Witnesses said they heard her cry in Russian: "I don't want to go! Save me!" before she was hustled aboard...
...usual--and favorite--role of Gary Cooper, he is quite at home on the bridge of his handy little ship. Wind whistles past his high cheekbones and salt spray lashes up to be-white his nautical brow as his first command is towed home by a Sancho Panza-type tug. His eighth failure to complete a test run has again resulted in burst boilers. The tug flashes a signal, and after the scant minutes his singal officer takes to decipher the more code, Cooper hurls back the answer, "No"--he would not prefer the cover of night to skulk into...