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Popping from the train in East Berlin like a plump orange from a vending machine, Khrushchev reviewed a goose-stepping Wehrmacht-uniformed honor guard. At his side appeared dour Defense Minister Marshal Malinovsky, whose attendance had not been announced in advance but who explained that he was "spending a leave" in East Germany...
Steaming up the Adriatic aboard ex-King Farouk's former pleasure boat (now renamed Freedom), Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser arrived last week at the beautiful Yugoslav seaport of Dubrovnik, accompanied by his wife, three sons and two daughters. Yugoslavia's Communist Marshal Tito, an old pro among neutralists, was patently pleased to have the hero of the uncommitted Arab masses dropping in just when the Kremlin was waging such heavy propaganda war on Tito...
Family Party. Resplendent in white from the peak of his fedora to the toes of his buckskin shoes, Marshal Tito was at dockside to pump Colonel Nasser's hand. Handsome Mme. Tito, buxom in blue silk, embraced Nasser's wife. Bands and cannon boomed. Then, past an honor guard on a street festooned with flowers and the flags of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia and the United Arab Republic, the two Presidents rode in an open Rolls-Royce, followed by their wives in a yellow Cadillac convertible, to the presidential guest house, the cliffside Villa...
...Bosnian Mountains to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the climactic battle between Tito's partisans and the German invaders in World War II. It was the two dictators' fourth meeting. The 40-year-old Nasser is obviously much impressed by the 66-year-old marshal, who so skillfully plays a fancy in-between role in the cold war, gaining alternately from both sides...
...newspaper accounts, the good captain "stood erect in front of his men, during the whole engagement, but escaped all injury, except having about three inches torn from the left shoulder of his coat, by a ball from the enemy." General Sherman made him a lieutenant colonel and assistant provost marshal of Memphis, where, even in 1862, blockaded cotton was being feverishly and profitably traded to Northern mills. At Lincoln's command, Littlefield later organized one of the first Negro regiments. By war's end. General Littlefield's character, as well as his uniform, was still nearly...