Word: ilyitch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ILYITCH SLEPT HERE by Henry Carlisle. 224 pages. Lippincott...
...Ilyitch in this cold war burlesque was Vladimir Ilyitch Ulyanov, latterly known as Lenin, and where he slept (during the summer of 1916) was a palatial Swiss chalet outside Bern. Or at least that is the sales story of the villa's canny proprietress, who has long tried to sell it to the Soviet embassy. But the Kremlin professes disinterest-until suddenly the historic site is bought by one Parker Atherton III and his wife Bliss, "a severely elegant, strong-minded girl with auburn hair and a trust fund." Atherton is a vice consul at the U.S. embassy...