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...neither consulted nor paid, said the Soviet tactic was "absurd" because "Solzhenitsyn and I come to much the same conclusions.") As another harassment the Russian Supreme Court undertook to review Solzhenitsyn's 1971 divorce decree from his first wife-and reversed it. That prevented him from marrying his companion, Natalya Svetlova, and legitimizing their two sons...
Schmitt's companion on the surface of the moon will be the mission commander, Navy Captain Eugene Cernan, 38. A veteran astronaut, Cernan took a space walk during the 1966 earth-orbiting flight of Gemini 9 and flew the Apollo 10 lunar module to within nine miles of the moon's surface in 1969, during the final test of the Apollo system before an actual landing. Born on Chicago's North Side to first-generation Czechoslovak-American parents, he excelled in athletics in high school but turned down college football scholarships in order to study engineering...
Compulsion. Some astronauts were less affected by their trips in space than by the acclaim afterward. When he returned from the first lunar landing, Buzz Aldrin, Armstrong's moon-walking companion, found himself totally unequipped to play the hero's role during the countless public appearances required of him. Soon he was on his way to what he now calls "a good old-fashioned American nervous breakdown." In contrast, other astronauts seem to have taken full advantage of the acclaim: John Glenn made a run for the U.S. Senate in Ohio, Wally Schirra appeared as a commentator...
Often married and more often involved, Bergman seems to draw new strength and youth from each affair. With Liv as his star and companion, he moved into a new creative phase. His pictures became less theological, less concerned with God, man, and the devil, and more concerned with people, especially women. This whole trend is culminated in his latest film, Cries and Whispers, which has yet to be released in either Sweden...
...Swedes were less concerned about the couple's morality than the Norwegians, but they were morbidly curious to see Bergman's newest companion. Tourists from Stockholm would take boat trips to the island for a glimpse of Liv; when Bergman built a high stone wall around the house, the tourists countered by bringing light metal ladders along from the mainland. It was the first of several strains that life on Fårö was to entail...