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Emerging from the Dresden railroad station, the visitor is confronted by a half-mile panorama of weeds and rubble, a skyline of twisted girders and the rusting frames of church spires. As a transportation nexus, Dresden was the most heavily damaged city in Germany in World War II. The center of the city, the historic Altstadt, was all but leveled by Allied bombers. The Communists have made little effort to rebuild it after 15 years...
Diem is an obsessive talker who can hypnotize a visitor with four and five hours of monologue. One recent visitor arrived at 4 p.m., rose to leave at 8, pleading a dinner engagement. "Call them and tell them you will be late," said Diem, and talked on for another two hours. He breakfasts on bouillon, rice and pickles. "I am no aristocrat. I eat like a peasant," he says...
...next step in Communizing the country. The only real surprise of the week was the hijacked Eastern Air Lines Electra that landed unexpectedly (the Cubans seemed as surprised as the passengers) at Havana's José Marti Airport. Just as unexpected was a cloudburst that accompanied the star visitor, Soviet Spaceman Yuri Gagarin, into Cuba. The rain soaked Gagarin, ruined his beautiful white uniform, and left the militia road guard standing unhappily at attention knee-deep in water...
...purely Castro touch was the bearded dictator's speech-it lasted four hours, counting a 23-minute break. At one point, Castro turned to Visitor Gagarin. "While I talk, you can go twice around the world." Said the weary spaceman, checking his watch: "Only one and a half times." Answered Castro, returning happily to the microphone: "That means I've still got half a world...
...Cracow abounded in fantastic expressionist and nonobjective canvases. Though this first frantic flowering was followed by a wintery decade of tough Stalinist socialist realism, Polish painters worked in secret. "For the mass of the people, the stumbling block between themselves and the regime was their Catholicism," a recent U.S. visitor noted. "For the intellectual, it was abstract...