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...book fair in Moscow and a change of venue for the party. The survivors of the ill-fated 1979 gathering who were able to attend joined about 50 other Soviet exiles last week for a dinner of stuffed capon and salade russe in the Trustees Room of the 42nd Street public library in New York City. The publishers created a minifair of their own: a table laden with U.S.-published books by Russian writers who are banned in the U.S.S.R. Said Bernstein: "The pattern of intimidation, of fear, of harsh sentences arbitrarily meted out to Soviet writers, scientists and thinkers...
...York, a helluva town/ The Bronx is up but the Battery's down. And so it seemed last Wednesday, when the battery ran down again in Manhattan. This time the lights went out from the Battery to Wall Street through Greenwich Village and as far north as 42nd Street. The blackout came just before rush hour when a substation transformer exploded. On Wall Street, the looting was lighter than usual; the stock exchanges had to close early. The streets around Macy's and Gimbels were packed with evicted shoppers. Only the dead tired knew Brooklyn, as thousands...
...automatic travel insurance overseas, reduced prices on intra-European student travel, and special discounts on various tours and accommodations. You can pick one up at the Harvard Student Agencies(HSA) office in the basement of Thayer-B, or by writing to Council on International Educational Exchange, 205 East 42nd St., New York...
...course, the plot is not the point. The savory core of this musical is song and dance. The tuneful seductiveness of the score, especially Thinking of You, Any Little Thing, Up in the Clouds, is not to be found in Evita, Barnum or 42nd Street. Choreographer Dan Siretta sculptures stage space with stylized forms, and his Dancing the Devil Away is a New York prairie fire kindled with tap shoes. The show is not for worrywarts who want to cure the world's ills with a $25 donation...
...burial place - Treptow is interred in Bloomer, Wis. - but right about his heroism. Treptow grew up in Bloomer and moved to Cherokee, Iowa, to work as a barber. When the war began, he enlisted in the National Guard as a private and was sent to Europe with the 42nd "Rainbow" Division. During lulls in battle, he would give his fellow soldiers haircuts and scribble in his diary. On July 28, 1918, during the fighting near Chateau-Thierry, his commanding officer called for a courier to carry an urgent message. Treptow, 24, volunteered. He was killed before he could complete...