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...stuffed with reindeer hair (see color opposite) that was discovered, preserved by ice for almost 2½ millennia, in a tomb in the Altai Mountains of Siberia. Yet the gold survived. Almost all the major examples of Scythian gold have remained in the U.S.S.R. up to now, chiefly in the Kiev State Historical Museum and Leningrad's Hermitage. Now, as a result of an exchange agreement worked out between the U.S. and the Soviet Ministry of Culture, written into the communique of the 1974 summit meeting, an extraordinary selection of 197 Scythian artifacts has come to America; it opens on April...
...psychological strain is hardest on middleaged, upper-middle-income executives, who felt wedded to their companies and drew strong creative satisfactions from their jobs. Corporate managers find it even harder to adjust to unemployment than do entrepreneurs. Says Ari Kiev, a Manhattan psychiatrist: "Managers are probably more dependent persons who often tie up their whole lives with the corporation. When unemployed, they feel abandoned and have nothing to fall back upon. But entrepreneurs, however devastated by unemployment, are more flexible, more self-reliant." One of his patients, an unemployed entrepreneur, went out and found a job as a cab driver...
Real Anguish. Factory workers adjust best of all. They are used to many bumps in life, and they fatalistically accept layoffs. Explains Kiev: "The factory worker has more cynicism, more skepticism about the company than the executive. He feels that the company owes him something. When he is laid off, he rationalizes: 'Those sons of bitches at the company.' And he goes out to mow lawns and fend for himself...
While Vins has been held in a Kiev jail awaiting trial, his mother Lydia, 68, herself fresh from a three-year term, has tried to rally Western support, seeking in particular, a sympathetic lawyer. The Christians' response has been quiet and ineffectual. The World Council of Churches requested information and permission to send an observer, but got no reply. The Vins family approved a Norwegian judge as counsel, but he and three members of Parliament who wanted to attend the trial were refused visas. Last month Baptist World Alliance leaders-in Moscow for the All-Union...
...good host, Brezhnev has exuded good spirits about the visit and politely deferred to his guest as to where they should go. "What he wants to see, we will show him," the Soviet leader said. Brezhnev noted that unlike the President's 1972 trip, when he visited Moscow, Kiev and Leningrad, this time they might go as far afield as Minsk in Byelorussia, Volgograd in Southern Russia, Lake Baikal in Siberia and Yalta in the Crimea, the site of the controversial summit meeting of Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin during World War II. Speaking of the agreements he hoped they might...