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...train. But instead of making the leisurely 27-hour railway journey across Poland to Germany, Brezhnev flew to the summit by Ilyushin jet. Out of view but scarcely out of mind was the huge jumble of rails ripped from the tracks near Warsaw late last month by rioting Polish workers. Indeed the mass strikes protesting food price hikes that swept across Poland provided a fitting background for the uneasy, restless mood of the Communist summit. Meeting in the modern, wood-paneled conference room of the Hotel Stadt Berlin, the chiefs of Western Europe's Communist parties rose one after...
Died. Prince Stanislas ("Stash") Radziwill, 61, former husband of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis' younger sister Lee; of an apparent heart attack; in Essex, England. A British citizen who claimed descent from Polish kings, Radziwill fled his native land during World War II when the Soviets imprisoned or killed several members of his family. The toothbrush-mustached prince, a naturalized British subject since 1951, became a highly successful London realtor. He met Lee Bouvier Canfield in 1957. After divorcing their respective mates, they were married in 1959, and one year later Radziwill campaigned in U.S. Polish communities for his brother...
...countrymen's devotion. Burgoyne cuttingly asks him if he's writing a melodrama. With all this self-consciousness, it's not too surprising that The Devil's Disciple never quite compels our belief. But neither does it matter, since the Summer School Repertory Theater, inaugurating its season with polish and style, so winningly compels our laughter...
...acting Royal Governor, and George Wythe, a Williamsburg lawyer and an expert classicist. The four often dined together at the Governor's Palace and enjoyed the musicales there, Jefferson himself participating on the violin. The three older men, drawn by the grace and intellect of the country youth, helped polish his manners while they discussed the theories of Isaac Newton or John Locke...
...original director of the Trilateral Commission, and now the leading scholar in the Carter foreign policy entourage, is the brilliant Polish-born Zbigniew Brzezinski, 48, of Columbia University. His admirers consider Brzezinski at least as brainy as Kissinger and more stable in temperament. Two foreign-born professors in succession is improbable, however. "Zbig" could well be National Security Affairs adviser (in which case the Secretary of State would not lead an entirely relaxed life...