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What a feast of previously unpublished material it contains-everything from an encounter between Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill in a Kremlin steam bath ("a converted dungeon of the early czars") to Stalin's private reaction to North Korean Premier Kim Ilsung's invasion of South Korea in 1950: " 'That Asiatic m- ,' Stalin cursed under his breath in Georgian, 'has made a fool...
...charge, made in the Republican National Committee's peppery publication Monday, has surface validity. The presidential candidacy of South Dakota Senator George McGovern seems to have little steam of its own. Polls indicate that only 5% of the nation's registered Democrats and 6% of Democratic county chairmen prefer him over the other potential Democratic candidates. His camp abounds with "Kennedy men": Advisers Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and John Kenneth Galbraith, Robert Kennedy's Press Secretary Frank Mankiewicz, Writers Richard Goodwin and Adam Walinsky, plus other lesser-known figures. President Kennedy's Press Secretary Pierre Salinger will...
...Steam Traps. For Service and Davies, the next years were a time of torment. Seven times in seven years, Davies was called before a State Department loyalty review board, then once before a Civil Service Commission board, and each time he was cleared...
...interval between dismissal and reinstatement, Service worked for an engineering firm in New York City and devised improvements in steam traps for radiators. After retiring, he went to the University of California for an M.A. in political science, then settled in at U.C.'s Center for Chinese Studies at Berkeley. Its press has just published his Amerasia Papers: Some Problems in the History of U.S.-China Relations, which fully records his early talks with...
...flights within Europe are offered by the British Student Travel Center and other official youth organizations to full-time high school and college students who have convincing identification. Sample one-way prices: London to Paris $13.20, London to Leningrad $48. Belgian railroads give 50% reductions to students. The municipal steam baths of Copenhagen, Stockholm and Oslo charge only $1 or less for steam bath and swim. Troubled travelers can get free psychiatric counseling in Amsterdam, free beds through Infor Jeunes (a voluntary youth service organization) in Brussels and easy tolerance of hash smoking (but not selling) in most northern European...