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After driving 2,000 miles across Russia from Leningrad to Uzhgorod, they tried to cross the border into Czechoslovakia at Chop. There, Russian border police told them that they were in an area closed to tourists. After spotting a camera, guards seized Kaminsky's films and had them developed. They showed pictures of radar installations, military work gangs, radio antennas, railroad stations, airfields and heavy industrial installations, along with a notebook and map minutely keying the location of each picture. Kaminsky's explanation: he planned to write a book on the theme, "How Russians talk about peace...
Last week the coldly practical railroad experts of Europe, meeting in Leningrad, were agreed: the old Orient Express no longer paid its way, must therefore be eliminated. Now anyone who wanted to spend two days traveling to Istanbul would have to endure the slicker, upstart Simplon-Orient Express, which swings south through Switzerland into Italy and then on across Yugoslavia, delivering its passengers efficiently enough but without the luxury their grandfathers had known...
Death Revealed. Ida Rubinstein, 75, once-famed ballet dancer; on Sept. 20, of a heart attack; in Vence on the French Riviera. Born in St. Petersburg (now Leningrad), she started scantily in a quickly banned version of Salome, rapidly went on to score in a variety of roles that highlighted her somnolent beauty and miming talents, rather than dancing skill, led her own companies in performing works commissioned from Ravel (Boléro), Debussy Stravinsky. She died in seclusion in the hillside village that had been her home for two decades...
...While at Leningrad, Goody plans to give a short course of an advanced nature on some phase of meteorology. This course would involve two lectures a week, translated paragraph by paragraph into Russian as he gives them. He has no definite plans for the rest of his time, but he said he expects the University of Leningrad to do a large part of his scheduling...
According to the terms of the agreement, Harvard will pay Goody's travelling expenses, and the University of Leningrad will finance his stay in Russia...