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...Solzhenitsyn, he has tried to counter the attacks on his loyalty and integrity by revealing details of official harassment, including secret police threats to murder him and his family. In another statement issued to Western newsmen last week, he disclosed that a Leningrad woman had hanged herself after five days of interrogation by the KGB had forced her to reveal the whereabouts of a hidden Solzhenitsyn manuscript. Police seizure of this unpublished work-a documentary record of Stalinist concentration camps-has greatly alarmed the author because 200 of the prisoners he interviewed for the book are still alive. They...
...been dedicated by history to a task more important than making fine poems. She had a mission, as her friend Nadezhda Mandelstam said, to survive and testify about a cruel age. She embraced the role. In a brief recollection, she tells about the hundreds of hours spent waiting outside Leningrad's prison for word about...
...Extend the routes of Aeroflot, the Soviet airline, beyond New York to Washington, and give the U.S. a run to Leningrad...
...built nothing outside northern Italy, and several of his greatest houses stand in tracts of the Venetian countryside that are out of the way today and must have been almost inaccessible to travelers in the 17th and 18th centuries. Yet his principles were studied as avidly in Stockholm and Leningrad as they were by Thomas Jefferson in Virginia, or by the elite of English Palladian architects like Inigo Jones, William Kent and Lord Burlington. By 1850, two continents were dotted with Palladian structures. Even Jefferson's design for the President's Mansion was a copy of the Villa...
Later, at Leningrad's Astoria Hotel, we had our annual publishing and sales meeting for TIME'S international editions. While the discussions in Moscow had focused on the growth of Russia's foreign business, the talk in Leningrad was about our own. For TIME is becoming a truly global weekly newsmagazine. Each week 5.6 million copies are sent to subscribers and newsstands all over the world, earning more than $140 million last year in ad revenues. Circulation outside the U.S. was 1.4 million in 1972, and annual advertising investment in our international editions has grown from...