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...pact was, there were questions about what other "sprouts" the nuclear test thaw might produce. To get an idea of what the Soviets had in mind, Dean Rusk stayed in Russia for four days after the treaty was signed, met several times with Gromyko. The Secretary of State wound up the week with a shirt-sleeve conference and a badminton game with Khrushchev (in which the roly-poly Russian easily bested the man from the New Frontier) at the Premier's vacation villa on the Black Sea. There appeared to be two areas in which Russia...
...back room of a New York restaurant in 1930, Joseph Valachi swore his dark oath of allegiance to organized crime. Blood ran from a ceremonial wound in his finger, and the young ex-convict vowed unquestioning obedience to his Mafia overlords. He muttered a final pledge: "If I talk, I'm dead...
...drums and bugles sounded the solemn Sonnerie aux Morts, France's ancient salute to the fallen. A chorus of clear young voices intoned the German army's somber hymn, Ich hatt' einen Kameraden. Then a torchlit procession of 1,400 young Germans and 700 French youths wound down the damp hillside. The ceremony was part of a movement started by Father Theobald Rieth, a German Jesuit who set out ten years ago to turn the graveyards of two world wars into meeting grounds for a new generation of Europeans...
...study, graft and mismanagement cost Pemex $113.6 million. Even so, the insatiable demands of Mexico's fast-rising economy slowly increased crude-oil production to 100.6 million barrels in 1958, compared to 38.8 million barrels in the year of the takeover. Yet the government company seldom made money, wound up $9,230,000 in the hole...
...attack when his left elbow was slashed by another player's loose bridle. Pausing only for a hasty bandaging, he re-entered the game and scored another goal, helping his Windsor Park team to a 12-5 victory. Afterward, it took three stitches to close the wound. Next day he was back again, and though his team lost, he could be well pleased, as he toweled off after the match, with what critics called "a capital galloping game...