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...Esther Aisenstadt, who had taught English for 23 years at an advanced institute in Moscow, was discharged shortly after she applied for a visa. Alek Volkov, 33, a professor of piano at the Kharkov conservatory, was demoted to page turner for other professors. The KGB also regularly searches the homes of visa applicants and sometimes carts them off to jail on trumped-up charges...
...interested to see Lee Oswald's pseudonym, "Alek James Hidell." Note that "Hidell" can be considered a contraction for "Hide" and "Jekell." It seems to me that we have here some evidence-of a speculative psychodynamic sort-that in the adoption of this pseudonym, Oswald gave (unconscious?) recognition to his own mentally unbalanced identity...
...Hidell, P.O. Box 2915" in Dallas. Handwriting experts told the Commission that the coupon ordering the weapon, the signature on a money order to pay for it and the address on the envelope all were written by Oswald's hand. Oswald's wallet contained fake identification cards for "Alek James Hidell"; one such card carried Oswald's own photograph...
Hiram Sherman is a colloquially humorous Touchstone; and Alek Primrose makes a memorable character of the octogenarian servant Adam. Donald Davis has effective moments as Jaques, but his famous "seven ages" speech is not yet acidulous enough and he often substitutes h's for r's in words like "part." Will Geer brings warmth...
...with the coding of Zabotin's dispatches, he became alarmed at the magnitude of the conspiracy and the added power the possession of an atomic bomb would give Dictator Stalin. One evening Gouzenko ran out of the embassy with his shirt stuffed with Moscow telegrams, including some mentioning Alek...