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...WELCOME, COMRADE, read the headline in the London Daily Mail. Just in case the visitor failed to get the message, the paper repeated it in Russian: Mbl BAC HE XOTHM, TOBAPHIU.The comrade was Politburo Member Alexander Shelepin, whose 48-hour visit to Britain last week mortified the Labor government, embarrassed the trade unions, and stirred unexpectedly deep reserves of anti-Communist feeling among the British public...
...part from his talent for administration and specialized knowledge, but also from his remarkable skill in dealing with the desert tribes, from which his family emerged. At his villa in Riyadh, he keeps open house continuously for tribesmen from the desert. "He has the knack of welcoming a visitor as if he has waited all his life to meet him," notes TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn. " 'He is so amiable and agreeable in conversation,' one friend says, 'that he makes you think he agrees with you, no matter what you discuss...
...still under pressure, while even Battambang city, 160 miles northwest of Phnom-Penh in the heart of what was once Cambodia's rice granary, might soon fall. Each night the Communists overrun another tiny outpost protecting the city. An inspection of Battambang's defenses, says a recent visitor, turned up "empty holes and no soldiers to fill them...
...When a visitor told him Alicea didn't look anywhere near 26, Silver-man smiled and said, "Okay, maybe he's 25, Rough game, you know...
...like the piece, but Fisher only replies that they will have to wait around for his next sculpture. It seems that Fisher has already begun planning his next, a snakish coincidence of twisted plastic pipes--again, salvaged--and that no arbitration by outside judgment will deter him. Still, the visitor is perplexed. "Aren't you a bit foolhardy?" he ventures...