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...early hi 1956. In collaboration with a friendly intelligence service, his unit acquired a copy of Nikita Khrushchev's famed denunciation of Stalin to the 20th Party Congress. Angleton and his lieutenants also developed the evidence that helped lead the FBI in 1957 to the KGB agent Colonel Rudolf Abel, who had operated since 1948 from an obscure photographer's shop in Brooklyn. The numbers of spies who have been caught in Angleton's net run into the dozens. They include George Blake, a senior officer in the British Secret Service; George Paques, a NATO official whose...
Died. Antonin Novotny, 70, former President and Communist Party boss of Czechoslovakia; of a heart attack; in Prague. Named secretary of the Central Committee in 1951, Novotny helped engineer show trials of high-ranking party leaders, which resulted in the execution of, among others, his old friend, Party Boss Rudolf Slansky. Succeeding to power in 1953, he ruled with an iron hand, slavishly aping Moscow policy. Ousted in the "Prague spring" of 1968, Novotny spent his last years cut off from control; his death was marked by a five-line communique from the Central Committee...
...year ago, only a clairvoyant could have predicted that Ballet Dancers Rudolf Nureyev and Mikhail Baryshnikov would be this season's top box office draws in Manhattan. Yet tickets are scarce as unicorns at Manhattan's City Center for American Ballet Theater's 35th anniversary festivities featuring Baryshnikov, the Leningrad Kirov Ballet's latest runaway genius, whose ability to leap and hang serenely in air drives audiences to frenzy. A few blocks south, teenagers, housewives and businessmen -many of whom have never seen ballet before-pour through the doors of Broadway's Uris Theater, where...
...General Manager Rudolf Bing who declared in the early '50s: "Caruso, Caruso, that's all you hear! I have an idea we're going to be proud some day to tell people we heard Tucker." Last week the current general manager, Schuyler Chapin, said: "When the annals of opera history are written, Tucker will rank among the golden dozen." He sang 32 leading roles, appearing in 503 Met performances. Tucker himself claimed sovereignty over but a single role: "Of course I can sing it better than anyone else," he said with disarming candor about his portrayal...
Board-Room Politics. One of Volkswagen's casualties was Rudolf Leiding, 60, who resigned as president last month. The company gave poor health as the reason, but by all appearances, Leiding's main problems were bad luck in sales and some brusque boardroom politics. When he took over the top job at Volkswagen's Wolfsburg headquarters in 1971, Leiding recognized that the basic Beetle, essentially a 1937 design, was steadily losing consumer appeal, and he moved quickly to develop new models to replace it. Unfortunately, the oil crisis and the subsequent economic slowdown hit just as Leiding...