Word: riga
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...Berlin-born piano prodigy, who as a young coach with the Hamburg Opera fell under the influence of Composer Gustav Mahler ("It was a revelation to me that a living man could be a genius"), whose works he championed in a distinguished conducting career that took him from Riga to Covent Garden and-following the rise of Hitler-to high esteem in the U.S.; of a heart attack; at his Beverly Hills, Calif., home...
...also tipped police to the family-operated lipstick factory of Nikolai Kotlyar, who converted the basement of a house in the Moscow district of Ostankino into a miniature plant. Helped by wife, daughter and nephew, Kotlyar installed lipstick molds, mixed batter identical to the popular Ausma brand manufactured in Riga. Soon he persuaded Ausma officials-for a price-that competition was wasteful, and began importing the authentic recipes and lipstick tubes direct from the maker. When Kotlyar was nabbed, he had invested his lipstick loot in precious gems, gold and state bonds worth more than 1,500,000 rubles...
...with enough folders full of state papers to keep him busy until bedtime. Once a heavy smoker, Abubakar swore off after his 1957 pilgrimage to Mecca, now combats the tensions of his job by chewing the bitter kola nuts that he keeps in the pocket of his long white riga...
...York's Idlewild Airport last week a ten-year-old boy bounded down the steps of a chartered Pan American flight from Munich. Young Andrejs Suritis was born in a Bavarian displaced persons camp to Latvian parents who originally fled Riga in 1944, hours ahead of the Red army. Now he was bound for Kalamazoo, Mich., where his mother already has a job as a seamstress and his father expects to find work as a radio technician...
Brash, hawk-nosed Challenger Tal is Botvinnik's exact opposite. A graduate of the philology department at the Latvian State University in Riga, he has made chess his profession; when he is not playing the game he is writing about "it in a Riga chess journal, which he edits. During a game, he makes his moves swiftly. Between moves, he circles endlessly around the table. Then, as though in response to an electric brain-flash, he stops in his tracks, hovers over the board, and, when his turn comes, swoops down like a hawk on the piece he intends...