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Born. To Ingmar Bergman, 44, Sweden's master of metaphysical cinema, and his fourth wife, Kabi Laretei. 40, an Estonian-born pianist: their first child (his sixth), a son; in Stockholm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 21, 1962 | 9/21/1962 | See Source »

Comrades & Spies. Jaanimets ran himself breathless; then he tried to hail a taxi. He could not make himself under stood, either in Estonian or in broken Russian. Desperately he called another cab. This time he got a ride downtown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLD WAR: West to Freedom | 10/24/1960 | See Source »

...Tavern on Whitehall Street. Almost everyone in the bar was too busy watching the World Series on TV to help. When a ship's cook named Brian Quinn finally gave him a hand, Jaanimets figured he had found a friend. In a mixture of pidgin English, Russian and Estonian, Jaanimets got his message across: he was an Estonian sailor who did not want to go back to Russia. Quinn, who has a couple of Estonian friends, knew what to do. He called the Estonia Relief Committee, let Jaanimets talk on the phone to someone in his own language, then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLD WAR: West to Freedom | 10/24/1960 | See Source »

Poetic Approach. Such public recognition is rare for Kahn, whose high reputation is based on only a handful of buildings. Born on the Estonian island of Osel (Saaremaa), he went to the U.S. at the age of five, showed such promise as an artist that he was twice offered scholar ships at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He chose instead to be an architect, and after studying at the University of Pennsylvania, split his time between teaching and designing a few highly original buildings: a community center in Trenton, N.J., a psychiatric hospital in Philadelphia. The scarcity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Form Evokes Function | 6/6/1960 | See Source »

...astonished Norwegian Foreign Office hurriedly arranged a program for Mikoyan, and wondered what important object the wily Anastas had in mind. In his first speech in Norway, Mikoyan declared that the Soviet Union had never attacked any country (Finnish, Latvian, Estonian and Lithuanian papers, please copy) and would not attack Norway either. Turning to Prime Minister Gerhardsen, he asked: "Can you promise me the same?" Said one stunned Norwegian: "Has Mikoyan come here simply to get a promise that Norway will not attack the Soviet Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A Call on a Cold Prospect | 2/29/1960 | See Source »

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