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...Moskva there was a dial telephone and hot water in every room (the hot water began on the same day as the conference), English-speaking employees on every floor. A special book of meal tickets entitled each visitor to excellent, inexpensive food (waiters in the Moskva's dining room were surprised to see how British newsmen, rationed at home, stuffed themselves). Everything was so good for the visiting newsmen that Moscow's seven U.S. regulars put in a bid for special restaurant privileges too-and got them in six hours, a bureaucratic record...
...casual visitor Harvard Hall doubtless seems only another agglomeralation of lecture halls, with narrow staircases and ill-lighted rooms that make it appear slightly more grotesque than some of its neighbors. Yet for fifty years this one building was the center of College life in just about every sense of the word--here for the student of seven score years ago were gathered his library, his dining hall, his social center, his museum, his laboratory, his chapel, and his lecture room. But the passage of time has seen the College expand by leaps and bounds, and gradually...
...summer's day in 1911, a visitor who was bathing in his lake momentarily got out of her depth, screamed for help. Seventy-four-year-old Gilbert promptly swam out, and ordered: "Put your hand on my shoulder." She obeyed-and he sank like a stone. Only a short while before he had made one of his most typical-but most inaccurate-witticisms: "I fancy that posterity will know as little of me as I shall know of posterity...
...book is still much the better. Written by a 40-year-old Australian, A Room on the Route has many qualities of traditional Russian fiction, including some that Russian writers have not recently dared to indulge. No Russian could write so honestly, and so far no Western visitor to Russia during the war has drawn such good fiction from his experience. Blunden was in Moscow for 14 months in 1942-43 as a correspondent for the Sydney Daily Telegraph...
...from the Kremlin streak every morning before dawn, carrying commissars and marshals to their country dachas after the night's work. Everyone who lives on The Route lives under special surveillance by the NKVD (now the MGB and MVD), and the NKVD has cause for suspicion. The U.S. visitor, James Ferguson, is introduced by his merry Russian friend Mitka to a significant little group of people who meet on The Route as conspirators...