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...Gomulka fails, the Russians and everyone else face the danger of another, and bloodier, Hungarian situation. Gomulka has appealed to Washington for loans to weather Poland's desperate winter. So far he has gotten much sympathy but no action: the question is still under debate. The Russians themselves know that in case of trouble they cannot be sure which way Poland's guns would point. They had a vivid demonstration when, in the first days of the October crisis, all Polish MIGs were ordered to fly to Russian air bases. Not one was flown...
...That wasn't like him at all." Then, early in December, M.I.T.'s dean of freshmen telephoned the Wagners in Chicago. John, he told them, had disappeared in his new car. "That mystified us," said his $4,500-a-year father. "We thought that maybe he had gotten married to one of those rich girls from those exclusive Eastern schools, and she had given him the $3,500 for the car, or that maybe he had been framed by dope peddlers. I told the dean to bring in the police." The trail was easy. In less than...
...kick. The poet treats these bodies to expressions--Cockadoodle doo!--and then hands them to the strangler who near the end is caught reading The Hudson Review. I overflow on Kenneth Koch because he is alive and seems to exemplify in some ways what the editors have gotten around to saying. He is also clear...
...prowl, ranging from the bayous to the Big Bend with sketchbook in hand. Says Dozier, with a shy pride: "I can recognize any sound I hear at night and tell what kind of animal or insect made it. As I've grown older, I've gotten more interested in the architecture of how things grow. Mountains have a bony structure, just like everything else. When you realize a mountain is a moving thing, you know there is movement in everything." Having first made dozens of sketches, he ends up not using any. Says he: "By then...
There are very few places he hasn't visited. He has been seen on Boston's newspaper row, and mingling with the seagulls on the city waterfront; he has gotten a shave and a steambath at local establishments; he has been tete-a-tete with Miss Rosita Royce backstage at the Old Howard; he has visited the Russian delegation in New York City; and, in between, he has occasionally been found on top of the Lampoon building at 44 Bow Street...