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Late one night last April, a Russian-born employee of a U.S. intelligence agency climbed the steps to his suburban Washington apartment. He fumbled with the key-and froze. From the darkness behind him came a tiny rustle of clothing. Then a voice rasped his name.* The man whirled, faced a stocky stranger in a trench coat who stood back in the shadows, his powerful arms outstretched. Again the stranger spoke in Russian: "Don't you know me? I am your brother Volodya." The brothers had been apart for 23 years. Vanya would not have immediately recognized Volodya even...
Overlooking all this activity stands an impressionistic statue called Devastated City, commemorating the city's wartime agony and postwar sacrifice. The work of Russian-born Sculptor Ossip Zadkine, it depicts a man with upraised arms, and, where his heart should be, a hole to symbolize suffering. The statue will be really finished, says Zadkine, only "when a bird nests where the heart should be." Considering the way Rotterdam abhors any unused space, that...
...Turn. Petrofina owes its recovery principally to astute Chairman-President Laurent Wolters, 61, a Russian-born Belgian who, in a long Petrofina tradition of clannishness, got his first job at Petrofina through a board member who happened to be his godfather. Wolters took over the wreckage at war's end with a shrewd entrepreneur's eye for opportunity instead of salvage. Since crude oil was cheap and abundant, he ordered Petrofina to forget production, buy its oil from other companies and concentrate on expanding its sales outlets. Petrofina expanded by buying up existing chains (such as British Cities...
Died. Boris Mihailovich Morros, 68, Hollywood producer who doubled as a U.S. cold war counterspy; of cancer; in Manhattan. Well-known for his musicals (Tales of Manhattan) in the 1930s and '40s, suave, Russian-born Morros was contacted in 1943 by the Soviets, who used his father as a hostage; he pretended to turn Communist, for years endured snubs and abuse from his fellow citizens while quietly collecting information for the FBI that helped crack Convicted Traitor Jack Soble's atom spy ring. Said Morros after it was all over: "I had to do more realistic acting than...
Even Calfs-Foot Jelly. When the patient's son-in-law, Russian-born Dr. Arieh Rapoport, came to visit her, instead of more morphine or barbiturates he prescribed thalidomide, hopeful that it might prove to be a better sedative. He had no thought that it could have any effect on the disease. "After the first pill," says Mrs. Bursi's daughter, "mother had her first good night's sleep in weeks. Next day, she talked coherently. In a month, she was able to eat by herself. Now she eats everything-even her favorite, calf's-foot...