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Carew's climb to prominence-to being a folk hero in two nations-was long and slow, tempered by illness and early poverty. On Oct. 1, 1945, Olga Carew knew her baby was due and started the journey by train from Gatun, on the Atlantic side of the Canal Zone, to Gamboa, where doctors in the clinic could attend the child's birth. But the baby would not wait, so Margaret Allen, a nurse, and Dr. Rodney Cline, a physician, both of whom happened to be aboard the train, delivered the woman's second son. The nurse...
They try to exorcise loneliness by seeking some point or purpose in their lives. Olga (Rosemary Harris) idealistically teaches school but dreams of a home and family. Miserable in her marriage to a pedantic schoolmaster (Rex Robbins), Masha (Ellen Burstyn) stumbles into a hopeless, heart-wrenching affair with the garrison's Lieut. Colonel Vershinin (Denholm Elliott). The youngest sister, Irina (Tovah Feldshuh), seeks to be ennobled by the "dignity of work" in the local telegraph office...
...Olga and Masha urge Irina to accept a proposal of marriage from an oddly self-mocking anti-hero named Baron Tusenbach (Austin Pendleton). Though Irina does not love him, she does deeply respect him and reluctantly agrees. But Irina is besieged by another suitor, a man as menacing as a bayonet thrust, Staff Captain Solyony (Rene Au-berjonois), who is romantically desperate for her love. Solyony challenges the baron to a duel, and all dreams end with a pistol shot...
...less than a minute. The hypnotist had talked to Olga Schmulders, a Harvard graduate student, for the first time in his living room last Tuesday night. He said just a few words and then started a slow countdown. Her eyes closed and she was completely mesmorized. "Olga, you can't remember the number eight," or "You can't bend your left arm," he told her. It was obvious that, despite efforts to resist, the hypnotist had Schmulders acting exactly as he wished...
...that was only part of the show. More surprising was what the hypnotist said after proving that Schmulders was hypnotized. "The stunts are for you skeptics," the hypnotist said. "Now Olga, I want you to relax completely and to think of all the wonderful feelings which you have now," he said, in contrast to his earlier tricks. "Tomorrow, you will concentrate harder on what you study, and you will pursue your interests more avidly because now you know that you can succeed. You will tell yourself that without even thinking about it from this point...