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Billeted in Ottawa's Lord Elgin Hotel with a fellow Soviet delegate, Klotchko waited until his roommate was asleep, collected only his razor and toothbrush, and slipped out into the deserted streets. Klotchko quickly found himself talking to the Mounties. By 8:30 in the morning, Klotchko's appeal for political asylum was on Prime Minister John Diefenbaker's desk, and by 9:30 the Cabinet met to approve...
...Review turned a cold eye on the problems of God and man at the Vatican. After dismissing the encyclical as ''a venture in triviality" in one issue, the magazine returned to the attack with the revelation that "conservative Catholic circles"-of which Editor Buckley, 35, is the razor-tongued wunder-kind-were muttering "Mater si, Magistra no." At that, the Jesuit weekly America jumped into the fray, proclaiming that the National Review "owes its Catholic readers and journalistic allies an apology." Unapologetically, Career Iconoclast Buckley brushed off the protest with one word: "Impudent...
Though his longtime friend and Man Friday Allan Searle reported him "not at all well," Somerset Maugham, 87, was, when up to it, honing the razor's edge of his autobiography. Maugham, who has written more "absolutely last" works than many another author has produced in a lifetime, had originally earmarked the autobiography for posthumous publication, but found himself bloodying so many colleagues that he has gamely decided to hustle it out as soon as possible. "If the autobiography is published after his death," explained Searle, "they might well pull him out of his grave...
...magician with a bat, Cobb was almost as wizardrous in the field; he once threw three runners out at first base from the outfield in a single game. And on the base paths he was dazzling. Swirling through a cloud of dust with razor-sharp spikes flashing high, Cobb gave baseball some of its most memorable moments. He stole 892 bases, 96 in a single season (1915). Three times he stole all the way home from first base, and once, recalls Casey Stengel, he scored from third on an infield pop fly: "Ty just waited until the infielder got ready...
...mulled over the early-morning statistics. There were no congratulations, no jubilation: the three were much too tired, and Kennedy's triumph was much too thin. Afterward, the President-elect waved his aides away and retired to his bathroom to shave, with a straight razor. In such homely fashion the great political drama of 1960 came...