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Autocratic yet affable, Bernhard lives in the Georgian colonial home in suburban Westport, Conn., that he bought for $55,000 in 1944. He uses a second-floor room as an office, often working a ten-hour day. His stock in Value Line was worth $145 million when the company went public last year...
...five men and three or four women who boarded Aeroflot Flight 6833 to Leningrad were members of a wedding party, though elopement seemed more on their minds. Not long after the plane left the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, about 85 miles from the Turkish border, the group ordered the pilot to fly to Turkey. Instead, the captain alerted ground control and flew in circles around the airport at Tbilisi before finally touching down there. Throughout the afternoon and night, the plane sat on the tarmac while the hijackers demanded that it be refueled. Meanwhile, a crack antiterrorist squad was brought...
...have been reported in the Soviet Union. In 1973, after a rash of hijack attempts, authorities declared that plane seizures resulting in loss of life were punishable by death. Neither that penalty nor the rigorous security checks to be found at every Soviet airport were sufficient to deter the Georgian wedding party. Alarmed Soviet officials launched a high-level investigation into the case. No mention of the event appeared in the Soviet national press...
Beyond the Pale, the title story of a 1981 Trevor collection, immediately allays any tears that Trevor's subject matter might result in dry and repetitive models. A Georgian seaside lodge on the Irish coast provides the setting for an explosive tale of suburban English couples holidaying in June, playing bridge and going for cliff walks just as they have done for years. Swapping bed as often as bridge-partners, the bonds and tensions webbing these people together is wonderfully conveyed the prejudices and biases that the characters display in their attitudes both towards each other and towards Ireland...
...female memebrs, the Spee has a history of relative accessibility, at least compared to the other eight clubs. It was apparently the first final club to allow females and non-members into its clubhouse. Today, members' guests may enter all but one room of the club's three-story Georgian brick clubhouse. Like the D.U. and the Fly, the Spee boasts of being the first club to admit a Black member...