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...late 1940s, Mila Brener and Ya'acov Meridor would have seemed the least likely candidates imaginable for the job of rescuing the sinking British shipbuilding industry. Both men were then Zionists fighting British forces in Palestine-the Russian-born Brener as skipper of a blockade-busting refugee ship, the Polish-born Meridor as deputy commander of the bomb-wielding Irgun underground and sometime inmate of British prison camps in Kenya and Eritrea. But last week, Brener and Meridor's little-known Haifa-based firm, Maritime Fruit Carriers, completed placement of roughly $700 million in orders and options...
...classic format, innovators have over the years developed variations that make the game even more complex. In one version called Capablanca Concentric Chess, the pieces move in spiraling arcs around a circular board. A number of three-dimensional chess games have also made their appearance, including one invented by Russian-born Mathematician Ervand G. Kogbetliantz that was so bewildering that it never really caught on; it is played on an eight-tiered board with 64 pieces to a side. Now, working independently, two other buffs have devised chesslike games for three players, all competing at the same time. Both encourage...
Died. Eugene Berman, 73, Russian-born painter who led the neoromantic movement in Paris during the '20s but found his real forte three decades later as a designer of lush sets for New York's Metropolitan Opera (Rigoletto, The Barber of Seville, Don Giovanni) and the opera stages of Europe; in Rome...
Died. Igor I. Sikorsky, 83, Russian-born aviation pioneer who developed and piloted the first practical helicopter (see SCIENCE...
John Maynard Keynes wrote that economists should try to be regarded as "humble, competent people, on a level with dentists." Simon Kuznets, who was awarded the $90,000 tax-free Nobel Prize for economics last week, is notable both for his competence and for his humility. Russian-born Kuznets, 70, who retired from a Harvard professorship last July, coined the term "gross national product" and did much to develop it as a gauge of economic performance. His strength has always been in insisting on collection of data, rather than in the construction of abstract theories. John Kenneth Galbraith thinks that...