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Yuri Alckseyevitch Asseyev, a former associate professor of Philosophy at the University of Leningrad, had been a patient in McLean Hospital, a mental institution in Belmont, since his attempted jump onto the tracks of the Harvard Square MTA station...
...Altov-Zhuravlyova article in the Leningrad magazine Zvezda last week is the latest in a long series of far-out theories. Russia's romantic science reporters have never been willing to settle for the most likely explanation-that the big blast was caused by an outsized meteorite...
...public-health functionary in a Moscow workers' district, bribed his way into a job overseeing several physical therapy workshops for mental patients. Enlisting some aides, Roifman proceeded to convert the workshops to his own use. He brought into the scheme state factory executives from as far away as Leningrad and the Ukraine, and they shipped him 58 knitting machines-ostensibly for the rehabilitation of the mental patients. From a Moscow hosiery factory Businessman Roifman cadged a starting supply of 25 tons of waste thread; from collective sheep farms he found a way to import 50 tons of wool...
Asseyev, formerly a professor of philosophy at the University of Leningrad attempted to jump onto the track in the Harvard Square MTA station at 4:30 p.m. Saturday. A man in his company told an MTA starter that Asseyev was about to jump, and a fare collector, Daniel J. Magoon, ran from his booth and stopped Asseyev three to five feet from the edge of the platform, an MTA official said last night...
...went because I wanted to. I had seen something I liked there: a better side of life, a cleaner side of people that comes out when you work together out of doors, when you get up at six in the morning to plant crops and biuld houses. Here in Leningrad things are old. There is much culture, much talk. Like Western Europe. But in Siberia we had something exciting, something...