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...wartime London and Washington, a soldier armed only with honor. When his country was helpless, he repeatedly forced the world to take his inspired vision of France for the reality, to accept his own obduracy and obstruction as a show of national strength. Today, with real military strength, a robust economy, Europe's most productive agriculture, he feels that France has an even greater right to alienate allies and condescend to friends...
...surrealism. He has done a beautiful silver sculpture of an old lady's hand, which he placed in a fading plush box and gave the title Tradition. There is a dumpy dwarf called Uncle Sam, and an extraordinarily graceful Man with a Kite. Durchanek has also done a robust George Washington, who gazes in bewilderment at a large falcon chained to his wrist. This, he explains, is the way Washington might react if he came back to America today. "I wonder what he would say. He might say, 'My, my, what a bird...
...work as hard as the 700,000 Spaniards, Greeks and Italians who have been imported to work in Germany. One piece of supporting evidence: since sick pay was introduced by law in 1954, the rate of absenteeism for "illness" has jumped from 4.1% to 6.7%, and among presumably more robust younger workers, it runs a shocking...
Brezhnev and Tito ignored the outbursts. Looking remarkably robust for his age (70) and his long career in the Communist jungle, Tito made plans to repay the courtesy call with his own trip to Moscow within six months. Probable companion on the return visit: Tito's wife, a stunning, black-haired ex-officer in the partisan army, whose silk gowns and jewels wowed Moscow during a previous visit as impressively as Galina's style distracted Belgrade last week...
...Meos were the worst," said robust Grant Wolfkill. "They ran around like wild men, always looking for an excuse to kill us." When they got bored, the tribesmen would fire machine-gun bursts into the cell; the trio were kept in heavy wooden stocks "like Salem witches." Their steady diet: rice and salt. By contrast, cracked Wolfkill, the Viet Minh "did more or less abide by the International Convention for war prisoners-we were at least allowed to go to the toilet." Despite their hardships, the five who came back were fortunate. American officials in Laos have been unable...