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...their traveling by air, including one memorable morning when they waited 20 minutes in -25° weather before the Aeroflot crew arrived and unlocked the plane. "It had been sitting on the freezing runway all night," Shaw recalls. "The temperature inside was about 20 below, and there were thick icicles inside the door. Finally a crewman hauled aboard a hose from the engine-warmup truck and began blasting hot air straight into the cabin. It was rough, but it worked-a bit like Siberia itself." Our story was written by Contributing Editor Marguerite Johnson, who in 1970 saw the region...
...will be back in a couple of weeks-he's just taking a vacation with Judge Thatcher and Becky-but the kind of minds who find it natural and necessary to turn Tom Sawyer into a musical cannot be expected to resist topping their concoction with a thick glop of Reddi-wip sentiment...
...Harvard's existing libraries were becoming inadequate again. Officials of the University Library--a catch-all phrase for all of Harvard's libraries--initiated a ten-year planning study on projected growth and book space. They published a thick pamphlet, full of zooming prediction curves for how many books the library was going to add and how much money it needed. The pamphlet's major recommendation was that a two-million volume addition be built to house parts of the Central Collections--that is, the books in Widener, Houghton, and Lamont Libraries...
...guarding the entry let me in. The building had two primary tenants, a silk-exporting agency and a violin factory. Up on the sixth floor I found my old office. The walls were filthy. Had they ever been repainted? To the bafflement of an old man poring over a thick ledger at a desk where mine once was, I vainly searched the walls for a familiar mark or crack. Outside, the lights along the Whangpoo River below were just coming on, but the neon glitter of old Shanghai is gone forever...
...many other cities, it was carnival time last week. Masked dancers cavorted through the streets, children dressed up in demons' costumes and whole plazas were carpeted with confetti. In the midst of this celebration, a stocky, thick-necked German named Klaus Altmann sat glumly in a cell of the high-walled San Pedro jail. Newly arrested after nearly 30 years as a fugitive, he confronts the prospect of a French murder trial...