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...relaxed the hard control he wielded over Spain for almost 40 years-not even in 1974, when he temporarily turned over his powers to Prince Juan Carlos after an attack of phlebitis. A stern, indomitable autocrat, he had outlived such contemporary dictators as Hitler and Mussolini, ancient foes like Stalin, and his old neighbor and fellow dictator, Portugal's Antonio de Oliveira Salazar...
...Writers Boris Pasternak and Alexander Solzhenitsyn were not able to go to Stockholm in 1958 and 1970 to receive their Nobel Prizes for Literature. The peace award to Sakharov was even more objectionable to the Soviet leaders. Sakharov is still the U.S.S.R.'s most famous scientist and a Stalin prizewinner who was decorated three times with the nation's highest civilian award as a Hero of Socialist Labor. Nevertheless, his eloquent critique of Soviet oppression has cut even deeper than the condemnations of Solzhenitsyn. Twenty-four hours after the announcement of the award in Oslo, the Soviet news...
Jose Ferrer impersonates Joe Stalin. John Houseman is Winston Churchill. Ed Flanders is Harry Truman. They were all gathered together on location outside Hamburg for a Hallmark Hall of Fame TV special entitled "Truman at Potsdam." "Truman was an honest, practical man of little intrigue," observed Flanders, best known for his 1974 Tony Award-winning role in A Moon for the Misbegotten. "I just had to stand up straight." Houseman, who won a 1973 Academy Award for his supporting role in The Paper Chase, learned to smoke cigars for his portrayal of Churchill and then picked up some of Winnie...
...Miller will incriminate no one but him self and that Lillian Hellman's credo is, "I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions." But that does not automatically brand the men who confessed and "named names" as mor al lepers. When Stalin has been your god, how do you redeem your guilt...
Died. Ivan Maisky, 91, Soviet Ambassador to London from 1932 to 1943; in Moscow. A dapper, moonfaced charmer, Anglophile Maisky interpreted Stalin's often twisting policies to the British through the 1930s, forging friendly relations but no alliances with Lord Halifax and Winston Churchill. Under a cloud after the Nazi-Soviet pact and Stalin's 1939 invasion of Finland, he rebounded to become one of London's social lions when Hitler attacked Russia in 1941. A superb p.r. man, Maisky donated the Soviet embassy's iron railing to Britain's wartime scrap drive...