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...that he is a showman-scholar who can infuse the most daunting of projects with whirlwind grandeur. Under John Gunter's airy greenhouse of a set, All's Well teems with musical-comedy bustle: dashing cadets in aviator goggles, marching bands and sultry chanteuses, and a Florence railway station full of Nunn's beloved smoke effects. But there is gravity here as well as buoyancy. A mood of Chekhovian wistfulness is set at the start with the valse triste of a young couple fated to part, and Nunn spends the next 31¼ hours indicating that Bertram...
...most bizarre issue involves a federal court decision in Alabama that China is liable for $41 million in payments on railway bonds issued by the imperial government in 1911. Over the years American speculators bought the bonds for pennies on the dollar and now are planning to ask that U.S. courts order the seizure of Chinese assets. U.S. officials have tried to explain to Peking that the principle of separation of powers prevents the Administration from intervening and killing the claim. The Chinese, incredulous at the notion that Washington cannot simply squelch the judgment, have refused U.S. entreaties to contest...
...come to light when the trial begins next year. Because of the statute of limitations much of the evidence presented previously will be inadmissible this time in court. But prosecutors have compiled a full dossier for his new trial. He will probably be charged with rounding up and shooting railway employees in Oullins, outside of Lyon, and organizing a police raid in which 86 Jews were arrested. The most poignant case against him centers on the deportation of 41 Jewish orphans, aged 3 to 13, from the village of Izieux to the Auschwitz death camp. If convicted, however, Barbie will...
...Lovesick Moore brought many touches from his own experience: he spent 17 years in the office of one shrink or another, trying to come to terms with a childhood that was more than unhappy. His father was a railway electrician, his mother was a shorthand typist, and he grew up in a poor, row-house neighborhood in the London suburb of Dagenham. But poverty was not the problem: it was a clubfoot and a skinny, slightly shorter left leg, which sent him in and out of hospitals from the age of two weeks on. "Psychologically it was made harrowing...
...ethnic Russian, Dolgikh was born in Ilansky, a Trans-Siberian railway town about 2,000 miles east of Moscow. He is thought to be the son of a former senior official in the Ministry of the Interior. After brief service with the Red Army in World War II, he earned a scientific degree from the Mining and Metallurgy Institute in Irkutsk. Sent to the mining-smelting plant in the northern Siberian city of Norilsk in 1958, he won high marks in the Kremlin for his skill in coordinating industrial development in the severe Arctic environment. Dolgikh was appointed party boss...