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JOURNEY INTO THE WHIRLWIND by Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg. 418 pages. Harcourt, Brace & World...
Journey into the Whirlwind is a deeply significant, lest-we-forget book. It recalls the days-and nightmares-of purges, when millions of innocent and apolitical Russians, caught up in the maelstrom of Stalin's paranoia, were brutally executed or jailed or swept across the continent into the slave-labor camps of Siberia...
...week of frenzied activity, Iraq's President Abdel Rahman Aref flew off to Syria, then to Jordan, then back home again to receive Syrian Head of State Noureddin Attassi on a return call. After receiving Aref in Amman, Jordan's King Hussein took off on a whirlwind visit to nine other Middle Eastern and Arab countries that would last ten days. Kuwait Prime Minister Jaber Al-Ahmed Es-Sabah dropped in on the Shah of Iran. Yugoslavia's President Josip Broz Tito wound up a three day visit in Cairo, went on to Syria...
Rural Deprivation. The whirlwind of civil rights protest that swept up millions of American Negroes over the past decade never touched Lurp Leader Glide Brown. In his starched khakis, cocky tan beret and flaming sword patch on the right, he is a 5-ft. 7-in., 168-lb. pillar of dignity. Great-grandson of a slave, he grew up in Brewton (pop. 7,000), a sawmill town in the piny woods of Alabama. His father, Clyde Brown Sr., is known as "Buck" to his friends because of his lively buck-and-wing dancing. Individualist Glide Brown Jr. always insisted...
...work, Mr. Anonymous, has been out of print since 1951*) who guided Hawaii's Dole Co. out of the doldrums before joining United Fruit in 1963. Similarly, his predecessor as president, John M. Fox, 54, now board chairman and chief executive officer, came to the company after a whirlwind success as founder and president of Minute Maid...