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...welcoming banquet in the Grand Kremlin Palace some 100 guests proceeded from one sumptuous setting to the next until they arrived at their destination: the Hall of Facets, where Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great had once celebrated their military victories. In Podgorny's speech there was neither bullying nor appeasement. While not forgetting the differences between the two great powers, he pointed to the number of times they had successfully cooperated in the past. Said Nixon in reply: "The courage of the Russian people, who generation after generation have defended this city from invaders, makes this vivid...
Despite the intensity of a campaign of vilification by Soviet authorities, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russia's Nobel-prizewinning novelist, for years refused to discuss with foreigners the charges against him. His best-known works (One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Cancer Ward, The First Circle) deal mainly with the victims of Stalinist terror. Last week, in a dramatic departure from his earlier reticence, Solzhenitsyn talked with two Western newsmen about his own precarious existence under an increasingly hostile regime. Said he: "A kind of forbidden contaminated zone has been created around my family...
...some time blacks on the Post have talked about a "plantation" atmosphere in which they felt that they were getting inferior assignments and unsatisfactory advancement. One of their spokesmen, Richard Prince, has been covering the district's equivalent of city hall. Another, Ivan Brandon, was promoted in the midst of the controversy to assistant city editor, the second black in that position...
Intimate Lighting, first feature film (in Czech with subtitles) by Ivan Passer, director of Born to Win. A comedy. 8:30, Fri., Chan. 2. And again, 10, Sat., Chan...
...medieval leather tanning pits, wallowing amid the preserved medieval pig manure used to cure hides, I was generally quite dirty and smelly. Getting a shower before the hot water ran out was imperative. There was a vogue last summer to read Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, with great empathy for Ivan's enforced dependence upon his cunning to gauge the limits of his physical endurance...