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Custine reports that when a squall hit a flotilla of small craft carrying "chosen bourgeoisie" on an outing to Czar Nicholas I's seaside palace, scores were drowned. The newspapers suppressed the disaster, so as not to "distress the Czarina [or] imply blame to the Czar." By a similar procedure, when a serving girl was murdered in a back street, the police did not bother to report the crime, but were careful to make a few rubles by selling her body to medical students for dissection...
When a theologian dared to take issue with the Orthodox Church, the Czar pronounced him insane, ordered him committed to an asylum. After a series of special treatments, the man confessed that the Czar was right, he was indeed insane-a story that might, with a twist or two, have come straight out of the Moscow treason trials or out of Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon...
...Copters. Igor Sikorsky, now 61, has been working 42 years to win such recognition for the egg beater. He designed his first helicopter in Russia in 1908, but it never got far off the ground. Sikorsky turned to plane design, turned out the first four-engine ship for the Czar's air force in World...
...chief reforms advanced last week: to get games out of gambler-ridden Madison Square Garden and back to the campus, to eliminate the Catskill "borsch circuit," where some of the players were first approached, to persuade newspapers to stop printing betting odds (see PRESS), to pick a basketball czar ("like Judge Landis"), to double the penalties of the bribery law. One suggestion, from Doxie Moore, commissioner of the National Professional Basketball League, candidly seeks to make honesty more profitable than dishonesty: let each college post a purse of $5,000 for any player who turns in a would-be fixer...
...Heartening evidence that Britons had come a long way toward economic recovery was the announcement by Economic Czar Hugh Gaitskell that...