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...going precisely no place. Tully dries out for one more fight. He wins-but finds his victory meaningless. He wanders the streets realizing that he is a bum. The deprivation of his life is somehow symbolized by the memory of sleeping in a park with other derelicts while city workmen cut down the trees that have provided them with protective shade...
...admit that service has been poor, and blame many of their problems on the "unprecedented" growth in the tremendous demand for telephone service in the past 20 months. In an effort to over come deficiences, New York Telephone last month began bringing in an emergency force of 1,500 workmen from other parts of the U.S. "Our pride has been hurt," said William Sharwell, the company's vice president for operations. "We won't rest easy until service is good everywhere for everyone...
President Nicolae Ceauşescu had to postpone the opening of the Tenth Congress of Rumania's Communist Party for two days in order to give workmen time to take down the American flags on the city's street lamps and replace them with substitute banners in honor of the guest delegations from 66 countries. The new decorations, however, could not paper over Rumania's deep disputes with the Soviet Union. As a result, the congress turned into an extraordinary confrontation between Rumania's policy of forming ties with the West and Moscow's rigid...
Back in St. Petersburg, Kropotkin was soon busy with pamphlets, manifestos, and interminable Russian discussions with a circle of students, workmen and intellectuals. He found the true faith and a false name-Borodin, the first of many. It was not long before he endured his first imprisonment and betrayal. Typically, while his colleagues scuttled out of town to escape the police, Kropotkin was caught because he felt obliged to keep his date with the local geological society to expound his theory on the ice cap. A weaver in his "circle" broke his alias to the police. There was no trial...
Then, overnight, Rumania's warm Latinate temperament-and Ceausescu's determined policy of independence-began to blossom. Workmen decked out the motorcade route with U.S. and Rumanian flags, newspapers bannered the arrival, and factory workers-let off their jobs several hours early-began streaming out to Otopeni Airport. By the time President and Mrs. Nixon stepped into the brilliant Bucharest sunshine, some 600,000 Rumanians had lined up to provide the warmest and most tumultuous welcome of Nixon's trip. The joviality continued into the evening, when Ceausescu put on a splashy state dinner in the marbled...