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...Herbert C. Cornuelle. Things began to move a bit. Though still without a plant of its own, the center scoured Asia for students, snapped up Fulbright rejects. The bait: two-year scholarships, valued at $9,000, including transportation, books, board and room, $50 a month spending money, and a two-month study tour of the mainland. When ground was broken last spring for the first center building, Lyndon Johnson himself jetted in to announce that "the concept of the East-West Center is as broad as the vast Pacific area it will serve." Less cheerful were the students, many...
...slowly apparent that Khrushchev was transferring his affections from the flannel-mouthed Kozlov to the nimble young newcomer. In last winter's Party Plenum debate on the agricultural crisis, Polyansky's role was second only to Khrushchev's. When Khrushchev followed up the debate with a two-month, cross-country talkathon to exhort Russia's peasants to greater effort, it was Polyansky he took along to back...
...Eisenhower, 70, fielded a press query on the space race ("It's not necessary to be first in everything. Our people are to be congratulated for doing as much as they have"), climbed aboard his private railroad car, was still signing autographs when the engineer abruptly ended his two-month California holiday...
...when the roof caved in on the U.S. building empire of Hal Braxton Hayes. He was the superbuilder who once put up a house in 34 minutes, a bachelor who made millions, the fiance who gave Zsa Zsa Gabor a 45-carat diamond (which she uncharacteristically returned when their two-month engagement ended), the flamboyant party giver who once was the premier playboy of the Western whirl...
...Delaware insisted that only volunteers serve in the crews. The Senator from Kansas questioned the "vast expenditure." On April 24, 1884, a rescue flotilla finally set out under Commander Winfield Scott Schley, who, 14 years later, was to destroy the Spanish fleet at the Battle of Santiago. After a two-month voyage and a search of the coves and inlets of Baffin Bay, Schley reached Cape Sabine. Only Greely and six others, out of 25, remained alive. In memorable understatement, an emaciated survivor said: "A hard winter, sir-a very hard winter...