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...reclusive author, Aikman drove to Solzhenitsyn's home in Cavendish, Vt. "Solzhenitsyn's somewhat forbidding reputation as a stern social critic," says Aikman, "had not prepared me for the gracious host who bounded out of the house to greet me." The author's wife Natalya and their son Stepan, 15, listened in as Aikman conducted the 2 1/2-hour interview in Russian. When it was over, Aikman was invited to share an informal family lunch: Russian blinchiki (crepes stuffed with ground beef) prepared by Natalya...
...handwritten sign hangs beside the door of the Cavendish, Vt., general store: NO REST ROOMS. NO BARE FEET. NO DIRECTIONS TO THE SOLZHENITSYNS. An intriguing story can be read between these lines: not only the presence in this small (pop. 1,355) Vermont town of a world-renowned Russian author but also the determination of his adopted Yankee neighbors to protect his privacy...
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn arrived in Cavendish with his wife Natalya and four sons in 1976, some 2 1/2 years after he had been charged with treason and forcibly exiled from the Soviet Union. Settling in at a 50-acre mountain retreat, purchased with royalties from Western publications of his works, the author of such books as Cancer Ward and The First Circle gradually disappeared from headlines and public view. Admiring pilgrims hoping for a glimpse of the 1970 Nobel laureate -- as well as suspected KGB snoops -- were discouraged by the natives and by an impressive security system ringing the enclosure...
...Alexander Solzhenitsyn. In Palm Beach, Fla., last week, Ignat Solzhenitsyn, 13, played in his most formal concert yet, performing Beethoven's Second Piano Concerto with the Soviet Emigre Orchestra. Only 18 months old when his father was exiled, the boy has thrived at his family's isolated home in Cavendish, Vt., where he began playing at age six and still practices between schoolwork for three hours a day. How does his father react to his concert work? "He's very supportive," says the teenager in a clipped accent that by now seems to owe as much to New England...
...White House ceremony marking National Crime Prevention Week, "McGruff" the bloodhound dropped in on President Ronald Reagan, 73, to shake paws. The 6-ft. trench-coated pooch (played by Sgt. Winston Cavendish of the St. Tammany Parish, La., sheriffs department) was attending in his capacity as "spokesdog" for the National Exchange Club, a 1,300-member crime-prevention organization. Citing a 4.3% drop in the 1982 crime rate, Reagan said the statistics demonstrated "a reaffirmation of American values, a sense of community, fellowship, individual responsibility, caring for our family and friends and a respect for the law." After his speech...