Word: sasha
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DIED. Alexandra Tolstoy, 95, last surviving daughter of Russian Author Leo Tolstoy; in Valley Cottage, N.Y. The eleventh of Tolstoy's twelve children and a favorite of his, "Sasha" became her father's secretary at 17 and executor of his will in 1910. She never married because, she said, "I didn't want to exchange my father for someone else." After working as a nurse on the front lines of World War I, she became active in anti-Bolshevik intellectual circles, and was arrested five times and jailed for a year. In 1931 she immigrated...
...Sasha Pyle 80 is a VES concentrator and publicity chairman of the Art Students' Caucus
...scenes were all too familiar to Americans: the crew drifting down under a huge striped parachute, mission controllers jubilantly congratulating one another. But it was a Soviet, not a U.S., space triumph that was being celebrated last week-the homecoming of Cosmonauts "Volodya" and "Sasha." Smashing all space endurance records, the Soviet Union's latest heroes, Vladimir Kovalenok, 36, and Alexander Ivanchenkov, 38, had returned safely to earth after nearly 140 days in space...
...week this gothic story turned into a murder case. The victim was Alexandra Bruce Michaelides, 29, daughter of David K.E. Bruce, a career diplomat who served as U.S. Ambassador to Britain, France, West Germany and NATO. Bruce never believed that his daughter, who was known to her family as Sasha, had killed herself. Says an old friend: "David knew there was something odd about it. He was suspicious from the start." Soon after Bruce died last year at the age of 79, his wife Evangeline hired Washington Attorney Downey Rice to investigate Sasha's death. As a result...
...planning to live with a stigma I don't deserve," declared Michaelides. "My goal is restoration of my name, and the return of the objects taken from me, and permanent disassociation from the pure maliciousness that prompted the accusations." At Staunton Hill, meanwhile, Sasha's grave is empty. Her body was exhumed late last year for an autopsy, after which her remains were cremated and buried in Maryland near her father's grave. The romantic headstone originally provided by Michaelides has been thrown away...