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...Editor Marion Sanders, 43, took over. Since then, Amerika has provoked no senatorial tempers. Welles-ley-educated Mrs. Sanders is a doctor's wife and mother of two college-age youngsters. She knows no Russian and has never visited the U.S.S.R.; Moscow cold-shouldered her request for a visa last year...
...photographs. Some of the veterans seemed bored; Soviet Pundit Ilya Ehrenburg fought the good fight part of the time in the bar, sampling French liqueurs. Fragile, gray-haired Mme. Eugénie Cotton, French physicist and president of the International Democratic Federation of Women (who had been denied a visa to the New York conference) smiled tender approval of the proceedings. The conference chairman, lean, somber Communist Frédéric Joliot-Curie, France's atomic-energy boss, set the keynote. "We are not here to ask for peace but to impose it. This congress is the reply...
What should have been fully explained is that non-Communist foreign correspondents have encountered so many obstacles to reporting the news in Russia's satellite Balkan countries that their number has been reduced to a handful. Each remaining correspondent wonders whether his next visa will be renewed. A recent departure from their thinning ranks was the New York Herald Tribune's Homer Bigart who, although his visa was in perfect order, was given 24 hours to get out of Hungary for a straightforward piece of reporting that displeased the Communist authorities there...
...Council for Soviet-American Friendship, Marsalka recently extended an invitation to Dmitri Shostakovich to come to Yale for a "Peace Rally and Concert." Plans collapsed when university officials refused the use of a building for the rally and the State Department denied extension of the composer's visa...
...stern look, toggle his holster and grunt: "Goot!" And no matter where Low's ball hit, if the Premier couldn't get it, it was always "oot!" "Naturally," says Low, "I didn't beat the Premier. No one does. But I got the re-entry visa, without which I couldn...