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Born. To Francis Beardsley, 48, chief warrant officer at the Navy postgraduate school at Monterey, Calif., and Helen North Beardsley, 34: their second child, second daughter; in Carmel, Calif. The couple's 19 other children (he had ten, she eight from previous marriages) all voted on a name for the new Beardsley, came up "unanimously," with Helen Monica...
...early in 1962, Brooklyn Attorney James B. Donovan received a cablegram from Berlin which said only: HAPPY NEW YEAR HELEN. The message was a coded signal that set in motion one of the dramatic moments of the cold war-the exchange of U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers for Russian Colonel Rudolph Ivanovich Abel, a top Soviet spy who had been imprisoned in the U.S. for the previous 4½ years. In this absorbing new book, Lawyer Donovan, the amateur diplomat who later negotiated the release of the Bay of Pigs prisoners, recounts the events leading up to the Berlin...
Director Guzzetti is fortunate in his minor characters, for their performances range from passable to very good. Ellery Akers plays Helen as an empty-headed Fanny Hill, rather than a regal queen whose face launches a thousand ships, and plays her well. David Evett's Menelaus is properly unctuous and opportunistic. And Michael Nach's frenetic sing-song servility as a Phyrigian slave introduces the comic tone which diminishes the tragedy of Orestes...
...final, the first seven stories--containing a lobby, restaurant, cocktall lounge and six floors of parking space--will be housed in an L-shaped structure. This part of the building will be wrapped around the Hamilton Liquor Store, which the holding company was unable to buy. Mrs. Helen O'Rourke, who owns the Hamilton building, said that she was not offered a high enough price to interest...
Revolution Unlikely. Plucky Helen Suzman, sole parliamentary voice of South Africa's small, anti-apartheid Progressive Party, accurately called it "slave labor." Said she: "The government imagines the African as a disembodied pair of black hands to work for the whites...