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...Soviets also expelled an American consular official in Leningrad, Lon David Augustenborg, and his wife, alleging that they attempted to pick up classified documents. Soviet officials sought to portray the case as part of a widespread espionage effort by the U.S. The State Department protested that the Augustenborgs had been physically mistreated during their arrest, and one report said that they had been stripped at the scene...
...investment manager's most important product is his judgment, and he hones his by reading voraciously, and not just technical journals. Two recent and related devourings: Peter the Great by Robert Massie and The 900 Days, Harrison Salisbury's account of the World War II siege of Leningrad. Last February, Biggs' weekly stock-market analysis included a quote from British Philosopher John Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: "He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss...
Beyond the accountants' ken, though, there are less clearly observable reasons. "Greed, gre-e-ed, gre-e-e-e-ed," murmurs Boris Kostelanetz, 71, who was born in Leningrad when it was still St. Petersburg and is now the senior partner of Kostelanetz & Ritholz in Manhattan. He savors his own repetition of the word, but he feels that greed is not always or necessarily the motive. Says he: "Greed means you want to keep money and spend it on yourself. For tax evasion there is something else at work. People who don't file tax returns...
...Barnes' chronicle charts the dancer's career back to its beginnings in the remote Bashkir Republic of the U.S.S.R., where, as a teenager, Rudi jumped and twirled in local folk dances. Battling the disapproval of his Tatar father, a Communist commissar, the youth made his way into Leningrad's celebrated Kirov company. Following his defection in Paris in 1961, he danced non-stop in virtually every Western company except the New York City Ballet. Now 45, he can still dance seven performances a week, apparently without tiring. Barnes insists that Nureyev can keep performing, albeit in increasingly...
...students plan to eschew these traditional get-aways to visit Moscow and Leningrad in the Soviet Union...