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...told, about 200,000 victims filled the vast natural grave of Babi Yar-Jews, Soviet prisoners of war, partisans, workers, even a local soccer team that imprudently defeated an all-star German army eleven. Such ultimate impartiality made it possible for postwar Soviet policy, with its own vein of antiSemitism, to try to suppress the Jewish portion of the Babi Yar massacre-until 1961, when Poet Evgeny Evtushenko memorialized the Kiev Jews in burning verse. He was rebuked by the Soviet literary Establishment, but his own rebuke, in the poem's first two lines, was lastingly effective...
Kennedy treated his differences with the President in a lighter vein at the dinner given by the Gridiron Club. It is supposedly off the record, but its better lines quickly circulate through Washington. The Senator said he could not understand all the reports about disagreements between him and Johnson that date back to John Kennedy's Administration. Why, protested Bobby, he and Lyndon had been very friendly during the first part of the Administration. But then, as they left the inaugural stand...
When he was through giving his stand, a student asked Hatfield, "why are you a Republican?" "My family was -- I was born that way," he remarked. In a more serious vein, he said he felt Republicans, overall, had less trouble with their conservatives than the Democrats. "Sure, we've got our turkeys, too," he added...
...collarbone. The lymph drains out by gravity into a plastic bag. With good drainage, up to 32 billion cells are removed daily, for as long as four months. They are separated from the lymph fluid by centrifuge, and the fluid is reinfused into the patient through an arm vein. With a well-drained lymph system, said Dr. Murray, rejection crises are only half as common as formerly...
Playboy was spicy but hardly shocking ?long-forgotten efforts by John Steinbeck, Erskine Caldwell, Somerset Maugham, Robert Ruark. Playboy also dipped into the ribald classics; despite constant mining, the Boccaccio and De Maupassant vein is still running strong. In the early days, name writers shunned Playboy. Today, Vladimir Nabokov, James Baldwin, Kenneth Tynan, Herbert Gold, Ray Bradbury and Ken Purdy regularly provide respectable material. This upgrading of fiction is largely due to Auguste Comte Spectorsky,* 56, who was hired from NBC by Hefner to bring some New York know-how and sophistication (a favorite Playboy word) to the magazine...