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...parents asked the Soviet embassy in Washington for permission to go to Moscow to see him. With the baffling arbitrariness that so often characterizes Soviet officialdom, the Russians granted a visa only to Powers' father Oliver, who runs a shoe repair shop in Norton, Va. Powers' wife Barbara, 24, spent three anxious months importuning the U.S. State Department for help, pleading with Soviet embassy officials, even sending a personal appeal to Nikita Khrushchev...
Eddie and Barbara and Me by Chris Kazan has a mildewed and cloudy atmosphere that fits the surrealistic story. I read it several times with ever increasing enjoyment and admiration. In contrast with this is the effort necessary to force myself to wade a second time through the turgid prose of Mary Wild Tillich's The Thrill of a Lifetime. Mrs. Tillich's story is flat, dead, and full of inexact and unevocative words and phrases...
Into the forbidding portals of the Soviet embassy in Washington last week walked a tired-faced women, Barbara Powers, 24, wife of ill-fated U-2 Pilot Francis Powers, who will be tried this month in Moscow for espionage. When Barbara emerged, she looked tireder still. She had been hoping for some word on her request for a Soviet visa. But "three third secretaries" had told her that they had heard nothing from Moscow. Said she despondently, "His letters have such an air of sadness-as though he is just doomed." At week's end, Barbara, through her lawyer...
HARRISON DALE Santa Barbara, Calif...
...year-old Boston-born beauty of Mexican-Irish descent who made her first big splash at last year's Newport Festival and has since been tagged as one of folk music's most promising talents. In her soft, clear voice, she sings both ballads such as Barbara Allen and rhythm numbers such as We Are Crossing the River Jordan, bringing to each a fine rhythmic sense and quantities of fresh charm. So far, she is best known in the coffeehouses of Harvard Square, where she sings, she says, to troubled intellectuals with "the Bomb on their minds...