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...judges did not goof in picking the medal winners - mostly because the athletes made the judges' jobs so easy. Tumbles by the top German and Russian teams opened the door for the two Chinese pairs. (Germans Robin Szolkowy and Aliona Savchenko won the bronze.) China's Pang Qing and Tong Jian were flawless, turning in that whoa-worthy performance you're glad you didn't miss. However, their fourth-place ranking coming into the long program prevented them from overtaking gold medalists Zhao Hongbo and Shen Xue. The husband-and-wife team was smooth but not as spectacular as their...
...last of 25 Soviet diplomats expelled from the United States under a broad accusation of spying have left the country, the State Department announced. A U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that among the final five to depart were Valery Savchenko, said to be the KGB station chief in New York, and Vladislav Skvortsov, said to be the New York chief of the GRU, Soviet military intelligence...
...novels with people in them again-just like Tolstoy. The New Neanderthalers in The Thaw-bureaucrats, engineers, state artists-are not exactly people, but sometimes Author Ehrenburg lets them wonder in a dull-witted way why they are not. Perhaps the Ice Age of Communism might some day thaw. Savchenko, an engineer, even has a vision of the future: "Huge tractors rushing out into the steppe, then corn, lots and lots of corn . . . Anybody would feel happy in such a factory. And there are other things: there's Hamlet." It was "the other things" represented by Hamlet-a monarcho...
Bolshevik explained how: "On Aug. 1 Botertzev, chief bookkeeper, and Kisko, chief of the planning department, called officials together, said 'Savchenko, the trust manager, has confirmed your July output,' and then shoved at them a paper to sign in which the actual output was greatly falsified. Afraid to disobey their chiefs, chief engineer Bulkanov and chief bookkeeper Sopelkin signed the paper...
Many an old peasant improved Savchenko's script by offering him a real sequence from the last war. One, after watching for some time, politely informed the director that the sequence was not quite correct. He said tomatoes now grew where his barn had been, that the Germans had taken his cow and knocked out his wife with a rifle butt. In other particulars, however, the scene was faithful. Then he added: "We killed the German near the tree over there." There is no more make-believe in Svirki. The Germans took it again last year. Now everyone...