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...parents were Lithuanian immigrants and she was born Jievute Paulekiute in a coal patch near Noblestown, Pa. In 1924, her mother got a divorce, took Jievute and her younger sister to Chicago. Mrs. Paulekas got a job in a mattress factory, married a carpenter named Peter Neveckas, settled down in an apartment near the stockyards. Jievute went to Chicago's Healy Grammar School, where two big things happened to her-she discovered that she was a very smart girl and she began calling herself Eva. At Englewood High School she shortened Paulekiute to Paul...
...black-listed was one organization which has hundreds of federal employees among its members: the C.I.O.'s United Public Workers Union. Last week, three C.I.O. vice presidents and Lithuanian-born Abram Flaxer, the union's president, called on the Attorney General, pleaded with him not to include it. Asked Tom Clark: "Mr. Flaxer, are you a Communist?" The reply: "If you mean to ask do I carry a card, the answer is no; if you mean do I believe in some of the philosophical ideas of Communism, that is another question...
Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia were forced, at the point of Red Army guns, to join the Soviet Union in 1940. Ever since then, Russia's westward window on the Baltic Sea has been tightly shuttered.* Said one Lithuanian recently: "We don't speak of the Iron Curtain, as that is not a strong enough expression. Our country lies behind the Steel Curtain." From refugees' reports, letters, rumors and official Soviet decrees, a picture of life behind the Steel Curtain can be pieced together...
...latter part for women, and police saw to it that none of the early bathers overstayed their allotted time). During Midsummer Night, they would swarm through their vast woods by the thousands, singing wild songs that echoed over the countryside's countless lakes. Now the silent Lithuanian woods harbor the bitter "brethren of the forest," i.e., anti-Russian guerrillas...
...fool forever," she said then.) The synthetically svelte, fashionably deadpanned heiress married her fourth in a snowy Swiss town. At the start it was rather picturesque and dashing. (She added an extra dash of the picturesque by screwing up the famed deadpan for photographers.) The groom was a Lithuanian prince* -handsome Igor Troubetzkoy. Trotting about like a jolly uncle who knows how to handle these things was International Playboy Freddie McEvoy, who a lot of people used to think would marry the heiress himself...