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...cold, cloudy morning in Berlin. Just before 8 o'clock, five blue-grey German-made sedans pulled up at the western end of Glienicker Brücke. the steel-trussed bridge that spans the sleepy Havel River between the U.S. zone and Communist territory. A group of 20 American military men and civilians got out and waited. Five minutes later, other cars approached the bridge from the Communist side. Their occupants emerged and stood talking. Finally, two men detached themselves from the opposing groups and walked across the white stripe, in the center of the bridge, that marks...
Vodka & Violins. In a day and a night in Paris, Salinger had two meetings with Kharlamov (whom he soon began calling Mike)-in the Paris home of Cecil Lyon, minister of information in the U.S. Paris embassy, and in the grey-walled Soviet embassy on Rue de Grenelle. While Salinger puffed on cigars, the pair were served vodka and caviar, discussed press relationships and other communication channels between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Inevitably, the meetings gave rise to rumors that Salinger was negotiating about a Kennedy visit to Russia, but Salinger denied it "on a stack of Bibles...
...time Connally announced his candidacy, Price Daniel had not committed himself to run for reelection. But the temptation to become Texas' first four-term Governor turned out to be too much. A small (5 ft. 8 in.), grey-haired man with a winsome smile and a squeaky voice, Daniel hardly fits the image of the flamboyant Texas politician-but Texans seem to like him, and he is a formidable vote-getter. This year he can point to a scandal-free administration and a record of modest achievement in highway construction, industrial development and teachers' pay raises...
Despite O. Henry-like plot twists. Plowboy is a gritty and gripping play. Frank D. Gilroy sees character with 20-20 vision and he can shape the grey, doughy speech of the inarticulate into revealing patterns. Gerald O'Loughlin makes Albert a hollow but pitiable clown; the burntout, empty eyes of Rebecca Darke's Helen are as lifeless as pits on the moon; William Smithers' grey-faced Larry has the strength to bear the unbearable...
...Battle, by Evelyn Waugh. The crisply written but melancholy-minded third volume of a trilogy about Britain in Waughtime?an obsolete, upper-class way of life and death that began to turn grey for Author Waugh and his hero when the Russians became Britain's allies...