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...phone conversations are usually void of such time-wasting nonsense as "hello" and "goodbye," and he often hangs up when he has said his piece, leaving the fellow on the other end of the line dangling in midsentence. He can stare daggers at a visitor, or just as easily ignore him with supreme aplomb...
...whole country has a fixation on shoes. Moscow is the city where, if Marilyn Monroe should walk down the street with nothing on but shoes, people would stare at her feet first. Clothes have no shape; but then neither have most Russian women. Men are short and squat, built like square corks. Moscow would look 100% better if every citizen lost...
...Storm & Stares. Pennsylvania's storm damage was the worst in 40 years. Somehow all the misery came to focus in a Howard Johnson's restaurant on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, just 50 miles from Philadelphia, where snow strangled every moving object, turned the road into a quilted graveyard of cars. Stranded motorists wedged out of their vehicles and headed for shelter. The lucky ones found their way to the restaurant, where they waited uncomprehendingly-first a dozen, then 20, then 100. Within a few hours, more than 800 people milled about the soda fountain, boiler room, and garage, clamoring...
Bounding off a Soviet TU-104 jet airliner at Moscow airport, Comedian Bob Hope got a bleak stare from a heavily bearded Russian when he asked: "How're you fixed for blades?" So it went for his seven-day visit to shoot film for his April 5 NBC show. Hope's Western brand of humor was largely wasted on the Russians, even when translated, but his running quips on Soviet life traveled well to the folks back home...
People came from all over Europe to stare at "the two philosophers.'' Said one visitor: "The voluptuous disorder which reigns in that house makes me regard it as a terrestrial paradise." The philosopher-lovers enlisted the whole village for amateur theatricals, went for picnics "followed by a second carriage full of books." Guests were regaled with readings from Voltaire's embattled works (especially La Pucelle, his scandalous extravaganza on Joan of Arc) and hastened back to Versailles to repeat everything they could remember...