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...secret-police chief as a cruel and cynical man whose favorite remark was "Listen, let me have him for one night, and I'll have him confessing he's the King of England." In later years, says Khrushchev, even Stalin grew to fear his fellow Georgian and the power he wielded as absolute master of the vast Cheka, or secret-police, organization. The sweeping postwar purge of the Leningrad party, Khrushchev believes, was part of a scheme masterminded by Beria and his "battering ram," former Premier Georgy Malenkov; the object was to wreck the careers of a troika...
...major historical sites in lower Manhattan is Fraunces Tavern, located three blocks on Broad Street from the New York Stock Exchange. A typical Georgian Colonial tavern, it is the location of Washington's farewell to his troops in 1783, as a sign proudly proclaims. There is one problem. The building was constructed from scratch...
...needs of the people. Even American colleges-the arbiters and nurturers of taste and respectable culture-reflect this inarticulate need to conjure a non-existent architectural past at the expense of a real and deteroriating present. The modern college gymnasium cannot escape the desire to fit everything into the Georgian or Gothic shells of antiquity...
DECADES AGO, in those years before the Square bustled with its hectic profusion of hipboutiques, street people. Xerox services, and boarded-up windows, the Harvard Cooperative Society was a convenient and reasonably-priced college bookstore. It occupied an unpretentious Georgian structure near Harvard Trust with a friendly pillared entrance which provided ample shelter for bicycles and conversation...
...passengers, Koveysvo Bransizkas, 46, and his son Prano Algirdas, 18, were seized by Turkish military authorities. The two readily admitted hijacking the craft while it was on a short run between the Soviet Georgian cities of Batumi and Sukhumi. They said they wanted to escape Russia and requested political asylum...