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...never got to Panov's dressing room. Colleagues missed her when the company began dancing the ballet Miss Julie, in which a noblewoman (danced by Panov's wife Galina) seduces a servant and then, with his help, kills herself. The next morning, police found Helen Hagnes. She had been stripped naked, bound and gagged, and hurled 70 ft. from the Met's roof to her death in an air shaft...
...Eisenhower brothers kept their political disagreements largely to themselves. And, nepotism be damned, Ike drew his youngest brother Milton, a university president (Johns Hopkins) and long-time civil servant into his inner circle. Milton gave Ike important advice on his direct telephone line to the White House, and made the 40-minute drive to Washington from his home in Baltimore several times a week. It was Milton who encouraged Ike to accept the Republican nomination in 1952, and it was Milton who said he should seek a second term in 1956. He also advised Ike's 1953 atoms-for-peace...
...release of Queen as "a good signal," possibly even a sort of trial balloon by Iranian authorities to determine how the populace would react. Others saw the release of Queen as a convoluted maneuver by Iran's clerical establishment to embarrass the beleaguered Banisadr. Observed a senior civil servant: "If Banisadr's rivals in the clergy were indeed trying to prove who is boss in Iran, they did an excellent job." Most Iranians believed that Khomeini, who chose to release five women and eight black male hostages last November, had simply decided, once again, to exercise...
...novels. He published his first, a mystery, in 1932 and continued writing fiction throughout the decade. He also branched into administrative work. The Royal Society asked him to help organize and mobilize scientists for the coming war; when the Ministry of Labor assumed this task. Snow became a civil servant. After World War II he was named a civil service commissioner and charged with evaluating the best and the brightest young graduates applying for admission. Such power not only exhilarated him, it amplified the major theme of his fiction...
DIED. C. (for Charles) P. (for Percy) Snow, 74, English scientist, civil servant, playwright and novelist whose writing probed the conflicts of power and conscience; of a perforated gastric ulcer; in London (see BOOKS...