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...training for a shuttle flight and may become one of the first American women in space, attended parties and even lectured to children at the Vienna planetarium. At week's end, however, Fisher's star was eclipsed by a 34-year-old acrobatic pilot and parachutist named Svetlana Savitskaya, who blasted off with two male crew mates in the Soviet spaceship Soyuz T-7 on Thursday. She was only the second woman, after fellow Soviet Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova in 1963, to make such a flight. With a superb sense of timing, the Soviets had sent Savitskaya into orbit...
Twenty Letters to a Friend by Svetlana Alliluyeva (Harper & Row; $10). A chilling testimony from Stalin's daughter...
...Khrushchev era as not only a journalist but a very well connected middleman. His entrepreneurial activities have included attempting to stage a pirated Soviet production of the musical My Fair Lady in 1959, trying to sell Western publishers an unauthorized version of the memoirs of Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva, and possibly helping to spirit out of Russia the tapes and manuscripts for Khrushchev Remembers. Louis' luxurious dacha, complete with sauna, clay tennis court and thermostatic wine cellar, suggests a more generous source of income than journalism. Yet Louis heatedly denies any KGB connection and last week professed...
...small town that has housed such notable transients as Albert Einstein and Svetlana Alliluyeva, McPhee is an oddity: a celebrated Princeton native. "I wouldn't stay here if my work didn't take me away for such extended periods," he says. "This place is my fixed foot." A staff writer at The New Yorker ("The job translates as 'unsalaried freelance'") since 1965, McPhee enjoys a freedom from deadlines that would tempt most journalists into sloth and several other deadly sins. Not McPhee. Reporting completed and notes arranged, he marches into a routine now familiar to members...
...mainly refugees from Communism. They often had to make their break suddenly, and even some of the most celebrated are motivated by a simple sense of survival. Svetlana Alliluyeva, only daughter of Joseph Stalin, now living quietly in Princeton, N.J., says that the very idea of revisiting her homeland would be "ridiculous, to think that someone who got out of prison would want to go back to prison." Czech Tennis Star Martina Navratilova, now playing at Wimbledon but resident in Los Angeles, says scornfully that native-born Americans "don't know what they've got. Anybody that complains about life...