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Cist had one of the two five-game matches. After a see-saw battle with Slyvia Price for the first four games, Cist turned her game up a notch to defeat Price in the deciding game...
...Stalin. What should surprise us is the fact that while we are momentarily outraged by the injustice done to one great man, we forget or ignore the grinding tyranny under which Soviet citizens live every day. Defenders of Solzhenitsyn are properly legion, but who has defended Raiza Palathnic, Slyvia Zalmanson, Sinyavsky and Daniels, the four Jewish dissidents convicted last week to hard labor, the Estonians arrested yesterday for the crime of wanting to visit their relatives, the Crimean Tatars, current victims of Soviet genocide and the tens of millions of others whose names have not escaped, who disappeared without trace...
Sing. Muse!, though not a hit, called attention to Segal's potential. Later, Slyvia Herscher of the William Morris theatrical agency became his agent and presented him with jobs translating French plays and doctoring works in trouble out of town. "So I got known in the business as a guy who could write fast and under pressure. I rewrote many a show that appeared in Boston while I was a graduate student at Harvard." Segal did not deliberately seek theatrical acclaim. He stumbled upon it. Finding it to his liking, he grabbed it, igniting the fires of his own professional...
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