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...also played (and revered) his father's music and quite clearly was burdened by the comparison. Finally he had to get away from it all and, still in his 30s, exiled himself to a life of teaching and conducting in what is now the Ukrainian city of Lvov. He died at 53 in Karlsbad, where he had gone to take the cure. In death as in life, he was proof of the words that would later be uttered by Richard Wagner's sole male heir, Siegfried: "You don't know how difficult it is being...
...swept away in a stroke. But creating from scratch a new government able to rule the vast reaches of Russia proved far more difficult. The Duma committee had included every shade of political color, from socialists to disaffected aristocracy. To head the first provisional government that followed. Prince Lvov, a liberal nobleman, was chosen. The Bolsheviks soon withdrew their tacit support from this "bourgeois" government, and Lenin hurried back to Petrograd to organize his attack. By July 2 he had mounted a sufficiently impressive uprising of sailors and workers to cow Prince Lvov into resigning...
...late Communist Party boss. When it is completed in 1972, the plant will produce 600,000 cars a year, and quadruple Russia's auto production. Italy's giant, government-owned petrochemical complex, E.N.I., is negotiating with the Russians to build a natural-gas pipeline from Lvov in the western Ukraine to Trieste to replace the fuel from its nearly depleted natural-gas fields in the Po Valley. Olivetti is also nearing the signing of a major contract under which it will build one factory to produce 150,000 typewriters a year for the Russian market, another to produce...
...they persuaded the Kremlin six months ago to begin sizable tests of their Western-style theories in the Soviet economy. First some 400 light-industry plants were cut loose from rigid central planning, permitted to produce whatever they thought they could profitably sell. Then heavy industry in the Lvov area was allowed to try out the new system. When factory managers and economists from 30 cities met in Moscow recently to review the results, they voted unanimously "to end detailed planning from...
Five months ago Ukrainian coal mine No. 9 near Lvov was cut loose from the tentacles of Soviet planning and made a test case. The test was the first application to heavy industry in Russia of Professor Evsei Liberman's Western-style theories of profit guidelines and greater autonomy for factory managers-theories that are already proving their superiority over Marxist regimentation in the Soviet consumer-goods sector (TIME cover...