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...Russians favor Vienna or Prague, which almost no one else wants. They have uncomfortable memories of Geneva, where Maxim Litvinoff once pleaded in vain for total disarmament and where the Soviet Union was bounced out of the League in 1939. But since these are hardly logical objections as of 1945, the Russians have indicated that they might just possibly consider Geneva, after...
Kitchen Commando. In Bloomfield township, Mich., a seemingly endless, six-inch-wide column of black ants streamed into the kitchen of Gunnar Turnquist, who fought them in vain with broom and spray gun, finally won out after blazing away for an hour and a half with a blowtorch...
Congressman Powell's harassed publicity man pleaded in vain to the newsmen: "This is his wedding day and he just got excited." Then he tried pleading to his boss to apologize to the boys. He came back muttering: "I've worked for him for five years and he just insulted me!" Result: photographers packed off without pictures...
After all these years of being almost entirely shut off from anything on that side of the Atlantic, and even now when one has waited in vain for letters from friends and relatives over there, you may understand that TIME is certainly welcome. It is, as a former American-Finn expressed it, like a long-lost brother come back...
...Quantities of stuff," says bluff Iowa-born Novelist Phil Stong, have been written about the "vain German nymphomaniac" who was Russia's Catherine II, "Catherine the Great." But Marta, "who was truly great" both as Peter's wife and as Empress Catherine I in her own right, has rated only one biography, written in the 18th Century. Author Stong, with the same racy narrative power that made his State Fair one of the most likable novels of more than a decade ago and has since earned for his two dozen-odd novels and children's tales...