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...account of the fate of prisoners' wives is the most sorrowing part of The First Circle. His cool realism is suffused with a rush of personal grief as he describes Gleb Ner-zhin's Nadya: waiting outside prisons for a glimpse of her husband, allowed rare letters and rarer visits, herself persecuted whenever her relationship to a prisoner is discovered?and, finally, driven to divorce in self-defense. (Solzhenitsyn's own wife, Natalya, divorced him at his urging while he was in prison. She remarried and bore two children, but after his release she divorced her second husband and rejoined...
...freezing Sunday in Massachusetts' mid-winter, Harvard's Class of 1943 numbered 525 remaining members; afterwards, 149 stayed in Cambridge, some of them deferred, some in ROTC and Enlisted Reserve units that hadn't yet been called to active duty, was it worthwhile staying on? A Harvard undergraduate was rarer than a soldier now, and 20 per cent of the Faculty--400 men--had left the University for military duty. And most portentous of all, the WAVES had established a headquarters at Radcliffe...
...avoid an immediate showdown with his critics, but it also whetted their desire for power. Police Boss Mieczyslaw Moczar, the man behind much of the anti-Gomulka dissidence but normally a shadowy figure, appeared three times in the past two weeks on Polish television, then held an even rarer press interview to attack the moral support given to student rioters in the weekly newspaper Polityka-a publication closely identified with Gomulka...
...made it still rarer. On the second day of deliberations, instead of packing the jurors back into the jury room after lunch, he put them alone on a county sightseeing bus, where they could argue and think amid the pleasanter surroundings of passing scenery...
...million in 1966. Sales are up another 7% and profits up 40% in the first half of this year. In household goods and dress materials no British store can match the John Lewis record for sales per square foot of space. An unusual trading policy and an even rarer company structure, in which all 17,000 employees are "partners" sharing in profits, have paid off handsomely...