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...R.S.C. has been equally innovative with Breaking the Silence, a quasi-biographical work that centers on Playwright Stephen Poliakoff s grandfather, a Russian Jewish aristocrat who refuses to accept the changes that Lenin's Soviet revolution have brought. Forced to live in near squalor on a railway carriage while assigned as a roving inspector, he stubbornly devotes all his energies to developing a talking motion picture. Although he is an untrained amateur, there are glints of genius in him. The play deftly balances his private quest against vast social change, and culminates in an agonizing exile from a homeland that...
...advised the Enola Gay that the target was open. Schoolchildren looked forward to air-raid alerts, which allowed them to stop working. Kawamoto said goodbye to his mother, who told him to take care of himself. He plonked a shovel on his shoulder and strode soldier-like toward the railway station...
...little rummage shop which he runs for charity came a woman, two months ago, who mysteriously whispered for him to meet her a few days later in the Tuckahoe, N. Y. railway station. Thither went Mr. Condon on the appointed day, accompanied by Al Reich, onetime pugilist. There the woman told him to go home and await a letter. When the letter came it contained an enclosure for Col. Lindbergh. Mr. Condon read the enclosure over the telephone to Col. Lindbergh who said he recognized the identifying '"token." Under the authorship of Mr. Condon there began a series of more...
...ARRESTED. YOSHIAKI TSUTSUMI, 70, Japanese property tycoon once regarded as the world's richest man; on suspicion of insider trading and making false financial statements; in Tokyo. Tsutsumi developed a hotel-and-recreation empire out of his family's Seibu Railway business, but saw it shrink during the Japanese recession of the 1990s. Tsutsumi resigned as chairman of Seibu last year, and has admitted to falsifying records, although he and his lawyers have not commented on the case...
...INDICATORS Off The Tracks Yoshiaki Tsutsumi, 70, once ranked as the world's richest man, was arrested in Japan on suspicion of insider trading and conspiring to falsify the accounts of Seibu Railway group ahead of a stock sale last year...