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...plain iron span over the Havel River joining Potsdam, East Germany, to ^ West Berlin has long been legendary as the "Bridge of Spies." Across it walked Francis Gary Powers, pilot of the ill-fated U-2 reconnaissance plane shot down over the Soviet Union, who was freed in 1962 in exchange for Soviet Master Spy Rudolf Abel. Last June the bridge was used to trade four Communist- bloc agents for 25 Europeans who had been imprisoned in the East for espionage. Usually such prisoners are traded in secret, often in the foggy predawn hours. Last week, however, the western...
There's no complicated procedure vis-a-vis the kind of NFL playoff possibilities that The USA Today spends pages examining. It's plain and simple: Harvard wins its three remaining league contests (beginning this coming weekend at Penn and Princeton and concluding the following Friday night at home against Cornell) and Harvard wins the Ivy League championship...
...antique footage of Long on the campaign trail, directing his mating cries at the bedazzled Louisiana electorate, retains its hypnotic power more than a half-century later; he had the great seducer's capacity to enlist his victims' complicity in his lies. The testimony Burns has elicited from the plain people who elected Long Governor and Senator, and were preparing to back his presidential campaign when he was assassinated, makes it clear they have never known a political lover so memorably transporting. Burns dutifully brings on spokesmen for the good-government opposition, and naturally one feels obliged to agree with...
Students also provide a variety of reasons for choosing Harvard over other night and part-time schools in the area. Liora L. Gates, 28, of Jamaica Plain, is a scientist for Cambridge-based BioGen. She says she chose Harvard because it was conveniently located near the research firm...
...story began in 1977. Aryeh, an avid collector of Russian artifacts who had emigrated from Iran to the U.S., owned some 100 of Faberge's plain enamel eggs, which were made for ordinary collectors and not monarchs. Hearing that an Imperial egg was being auctioned off by Christie's in Geneva, he asked his sister Shahnaz, who lived in Switzerland, to try to buy it. This particular egg was supposedly commissioned for the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty in 1913 by Czarina Alexandra for her husband Nicholas II. It opens to reveal a tiny statue of Nicholas astride...