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...Washington expelled Valentin M. Ivanov, first secretary of the Soviet embassy, accusing him of paying a young American "a substantial sum" to seek a U.S. Government job. But there were signs that the Soviet government was making progress in its campaign to keep ordinary Russians away from contact with foreigners: it doesn't take much to revive memories. Reported Los Angeles Schoolteacher Betty Jean Koferts, who was shadowed on her Soviet trip because she dated a Russian boy: "They took him to police headquarters and warned him against seeing me again . . . Most people there are afraid of Americans...
...front of the ladies' room.'' So great is his prestige that Film Producer Peter Bamberger says: "Obermaier has written himself into such power that he can seemingly make or break anyone in German moviedom. Last year in Venice, on a pure whim, he picked up Barbara Valentin-a blowzy blonde whom he referred to in private as a 'fat louse.' Within one month, with the aid of all the columnists in the illustrateds who copy Hunter in everything he does, he made her into Germany's No. 1 femme fatale...
...General Valentin Garcia is a cherished legend to the inhabitants of the Venezuelan state of Sucre. He fought in six great battles of the war of liberation from Spain, and once saved the life of General Simon Bolivar, who thereupon dubbed Garcia "Valentin Valiente" (Valentin the Brave). When Garcia died in 1856, he was buried in the parish cemetery of the town of Cumana. But until last week, Valentin the Brave, much as he was honored in Sucre,* never won a similar reverence from the rest of Venezuela...
...earth. Reputable Soviet meteor experts and astronomers ridiculed Kazantsev's theory and accused him of being a charlatan and a cheap sensationalist, but his theories continued to turn up in the Literary Gazette, the publication of the Soviet Writers Union. Last week the Gazette opened its pages to Valentin Rich and Mikhail Chernenkov, who made Kazantsev's imagination seem earthbound indeed. Starting from the premise that earth cannot possibly be the only inhabited planet in the universe, the co-authors searched for evidence that the world has been visited in times past by "cosmonauts" from outer space...
...Valentin Korn, 43, for years a producer of unexceptional wines from a small hillside plot, but a vintner with a bright idea of how to make every year a vintage year. Hiring a chemist, he concocted a mixture of two parts grape juice, eight parts water, plus dashes of citric acid, tartaric acid, potash and glycerin. In two years Korn made between 1,500,000 and 4,000,000 quarts. Germans sipped it with satisfaction, noted nothing unusual; neither did the government controllers, who checked it periodically for bouquet and chemical content...