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...lecherous holy man Rasputin. Brave talk. The prince was nearly dead on his feet after he had dispatched the wild monk by feeding him enough cyanide to kill a regiment of Cossacks, blasting him with a revolver, beating him with a rubber truncheon, and dumping him into the Neva River. Now, 50 years after the murder, the prince will have the pleasure of watching someone else do the job. His recent book, The End of Rasputin, is being filmed near the prince's home in Paris, with English Actor Peter McEnery giving the fatal mugging to Gert (Goldfinger) Frobe...
...Married. Neva Goodwin Rockefeller, 22, daughter of Banker David, a Radcliffe graduate and aspiring playwright; and Harvard English Professor Walter J. Kaiser, 35; in Pocantico Hills...
Also, Lucy G. Quimby of Washington, D.C. (History); Neva G. Rockefeller of New York City (English); Lois J. Schiffer of Washington, D.C. (Social Studies); Judith Temkin of Baltimore, Md. (Anthropology); Laurel Blossom Thomas of Cleveland, Ohio (English); Joan H. Weens of Atlanta, Ga. (Biochemical Sciences); and Laura J. White horn of New Rochelle, N.Y. (History and Literature...
...white cathedrals and marble statues and gilded domes glinting in the wintry sun. Author Gosling, art critic of London's Observer, and Photographer Colin Jones have successfully limned the luminous city built by that savage giant, Peter the Great (1672-1725), along the soggy shores of the Neva. It became the seat of the czars and of Russian culture; Pushkin...
...dramatically clutched his own throat in demonstration. After that, the dying monk staggered into the courtyard, where he showed remarkable stamina by surviving four more bullets before the prince beat him to death with a club and the plotters tossed the corpse into the ice-filled Neva River...