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...Saturday evening, the activity and the animation, disappear. My first night there, I drifted about Leningrad naively, expecting to sit down in a bar or a restaurant to chart with some Russians. But that venture proved to be impossible. The only people who I came those fishing along the Neva river...
...major problems. Senior Correspondent William Rademaekers and Reporter Gertraud Lessing, however, braved treacherous slopes and icy winds of 100-plus m.p.h. to reach the Alpine-siding sites, only to find that the competition had been called off. Correspondent B.J. Phillips, making her way around town in a Soviet-built Neva Jeep-type vehicle, was glad to be assigned to figure skating. "There is some advantage," she said, "in reporting one of the few winter competitions that take place indoors...
DORMITORY NUMBER six, where we lived during our four-month stay in Leningrad, stands on the right bank of the River Neva almost directly opposite the Winter Palace of the Tsars. In pre-revolutionary times "6" served as a "public house" where public women offered their services to the Tsar's officers. We used to joke that the plumbing probably hadn't been fixed since that time and that when the women left they probably took the toilet seats and hot water with them...
...shallow business downturn in order to slow inflation increasingly resembles the attempts in 1916 by Russian noblemen to kill Rasputin: they fed Tsarina Alexandra's mystic poisoned teacakes and wine, then shot him three times, and finally had to drown him in St. Petersburg's icy Neva River. Despite record-high interest rates, the long awaited recession still refuses to materialize definitively...
Last year, the University recognized the importance of such sales, without admitting the overall negative role of United States companies in South Africa. Hopefully, it will not now ignore that decision. Neva Seidman Makgetla...