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...Alberto Sordi brings his sunny southern warmth to this Italian comedy about a frisky fur merchant who discovers firsthand that sex in Stockholm is still...
...Alberto Sordi brings his sunny southern warmth to this Italian comedy about a frisky fur merchant who discovers firsthand that sex in Stockholm is still...
...obtained funds and equipment from Red Chinese and Soviet agents, for when Congo police came upon Mulele's outposts, they found copies of Mao Tse-tung's handbook on guerrilla warfare, Soviet-made cameras, a combat radio, homemade gasoline bombs made from beer bottles-and two Russian fur hats. It was just such subversive activities as this that led Congo Premier Cyrille Adoula to expel Russia's entire 100-man mission from Leopoldville last November. Clearly, Moscow's men were still not ready to give up their primary effort: to topple Adoula's government...
...note said nothing at all about Russia's most important squabble-the one with Communist China. But this was surely a topic of conversation when Khrushchev, bundled up in a fur hat and fur-trimmed coat, suddenly arrived for a visit with Polish Communist Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka in a lavish hunting lodge 125 miles north of Warsaw-the same frigid site where Nikita met Gomulka a year ago for discussion of Communist problems and some hunting in the nearby woods...
Unlike other American tycoons, Astor apparently never developed any social ambitions. His only real interest was the fur trade, and when that dwindled, so did Astor's energies. He correctly judged in the 1830s that the boom was over (in London he had encountered "hats of silk in place of beaver"), and he retired in ill health from the business. "All your wealth will do you no good in your grave," he wrote piously to a friend. And piously in 1848 he went to his grave...