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...University of Chicago's Latvian-born Anita Rozlapa, 22, fled at the age of five with her family from the Russians and lived in a German D.P. camp until she was eleven. "I loved woods and flowers," she recalls, "and some said I could become a biologist." Instead, brought to the U.S. by a suburban Chicago couple, small, bright Refugee Rozlapa fell in love with Spanish at La Grange (Ill.) High School. With a George M. Pullman Scholarship, she wound up at Chicago, where she was Spanish Club president and earned a better than 3.7 average...
...Detroit-born Baptist minister and a staff of 17 are beaming a constant stream of religious broadcasts over five giant "curtain antennas" that reach across Asia to the Pacific. Broadcasts in the other direction-to Spain-carry on to Latin America. The Gospel message is carried in Russian, Spanish, Latvian, Hebrew, Arabic, Swedish, Portuguese, French, English, Italian and German. Within three months, Armenian, Georgian and Uzbek will be added; within a year, Chinese and Hindustani. And the Soviets have never tried...
Fraternal Grafts. Latvian-born son of an engineer father and a dental surgeon mother, John Riteris, 24, was found to have kidney disease while in the Army, was discharged and went home to Milwaukee. Easily tired, always short of breath, he developed severe high blood pressure, a failing and enormously enlarged heart, "dropsy" and anemia. When his 6-ft. frame was down to 98 Ibs., doctors despaired of saving...
...York's Idlewild Airport last week a ten-year-old boy bounded down the steps of a chartered Pan American flight from Munich. Young Andrejs Suritis was born in a Bavarian displaced persons camp to Latvian parents who originally fled Riga in 1944, hours ahead of the Red army. Now he was bound for Kalamazoo, Mich., where his mother already has a job as a seamstress and his father expects to find work as a radio technician...
Brash, hawk-nosed Challenger Tal is Botvinnik's exact opposite. A graduate of the philology department at the Latvian State University in Riga, he has made chess his profession; when he is not playing the game he is writing about "it in a Riga chess journal, which he edits. During a game, he makes his moves swiftly. Between moves, he circles endlessly around the table. Then, as though in response to an electric brain-flash, he stops in his tracks, hovers over the board, and, when his turn comes, swoops down like a hawk on the piece he intends...