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...invited Russian technicians to study a 100,000-kw. power plant for Xiengkhouang, and asked Red North Viet Nam to build him a small hotel and houses for the diplomatic corps. He added genially: "I am encouraged by U.S. and Russian agreement on a neutral Laos." As he spoke, grey Ilyushin transports lumbered overhead on their way to land oil and military supplies...
...What you must learn is to master your own technique." He was strongly influenced by the childlike fantasies of Paul Klee and the emotion-soaked colors of Emile Nolde. Like Picasso, he went through "periods" keyed by colors. There were rose-colored paintings, followed by a long series of grey birds. Then his palette burst open, spilling out colors that glowed like stained glass. During the Nazi occupation, his colors faded, as if to reflect the blacked-out cities; but once the Germans surrendered, his paintings began to sparkle again...
...Groaning Board. At the Cape, the Kennedys disappeared into the family compound, observed Thanksgiving in grey and clammy New England weather. Jacqueline Kennedy gathered Caroline into her lap, described how the Pilgrims had landed 28 miles away at Plymouth Rock.* The Kennedy men watched the Green Bay Packers-Detroit Lions professional football game on television; then, led by Bobby and Ted Kennedy while the President remained idle, they went outside for a brisk period of touch football. The President, his sisters, and brother Ted also drove into Hyannis to the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. memorial skating rink; all but Jack...
...most responsible for the experiment is Vice Premier Li Fu-chun, the 61-year-old chairman of Red China's State Planning Commission. Thin, grey-haired, bookish and self-effacing, Li Fu-chun has been in charge of "squeezing" the peasants during the three bitter years, beginning in 1958, of the Great Leap Forward, which was aimed at giving China an industrial base greater than that of Britain. From Li's neat office in Embracing Kindness Hall-a two-story Manchu dynasty palace in Peking's Forbidden City-have poured the blueprints and directives that marshaled China...
...grey and drizzling last week as Moscow turned out to celebrate the 44th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. Only a few days after the panoply of the Party Congress, thousands of civilian demonstrators gathered in their assigned staging areas, huddling beneath banners, signs and floats. As crowds filled the bleacher seats on both sides of Red Square, the trim battalions of the Moscow garrison drew up across from the Mausoleum now solely occupied by Lenin...