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...took the Soviets two days to retaliate: then they listed 25 British diplomats, businessmen and journalists who would have to leave Moscow within three weeks. Ambassador Sir Bryan Cartledge was called to the foreign ministry and told that those being expelled had engaged in "activities incompatible with their status," diplomatic language for spying. Cartledge described the charges as absurd. At week's end it was not clear whether Britain would raise the stakes by ejecting still more Soviet officials who might have been fingered by Gordievsky...
...line off Newport, R.I., capturing the America's Cup and ending 132 years of U.S. sailing supremacy. Americans were astonished when John Bertrand, an unknown naval engineer, steered his boat to victory. But those familiar with the Melbourne skipper were not surprised: Bertrand's great-grandfather had helped build Sir Thomas Lipton's towering boats for early 20th century America's Cup competitions. As Bertrand admits in Born to Win, he relied as much on gamesmanship as yachtsmanship. He called the boat's new forward-slanted keel his secret weapon, and only now confesses that the keel was a fake...
...Power worship," many critics suggest, was the particular Mitford sin, and the Guinnesses partially agree. Diana, the beauty of the family, with passionate eyes set in a curiously passive face, showed "a potential for extremism." Translation: she fell in love with British Fascist Leader Sir Oswald Mosley and the ideas he believed...
Ever since the grandiose failure of Sir Peter Hall's staging of Der Ring des Nibelungen in Bayreuth two summers ago, Wagnerites have been anticipating the San Francisco Opera's new production of the epic four-evening cycle. For although it is common knowledge in the opera world that there are not enough voices of heroic Wagnerian caliber around these days, just put on a Ring and watch the paying customers line...
...Director Nikolaus Lehnhoff's departures from Wagnerian canon in an otherwise traditionalist view of the work. But there can be no disputing the high quality of the vocalism. Since 1976, there has been a director's Ring (Patrice Chereau's Wagner-as-social-revolution) and a conductor's Ring (Sir Georg Solti's at Bayreuth in 1983). Here, at last, a singer's Ring...