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Hint of a Swap. What were the Soviets up to? For one thing, they may have been trying to pressure Turkey into returning the father-and-son pair who carried off the first successful hijacking of a Soviet aircraft last month, killing an 18-year-old stewardess in the process. Turkish President Cevdet Sunay, however, declared that the matter would be handled not as a political decision, but by Turkish courts, where it is still pending...
There are rumors that a swap may in fact be in the works. Wolfgang Vogel. the East Berlin lawyer who was instrumental in the exchange of U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers for Soviet Master Spy Rudolf Abel, is active in the case. So is Manhattan Lawyer Maxwell Rabb, secretary to the Cabinet during the Eisenhower Administration who has negotiated the release of seven Americans from East Germany since 1965. If the Soviets are determined to bring about a better climate in Berlin, Moscow may try to pressure the East Germans to free the students. But there is also...
Essex any opera director might be tempted to swap his Ring cycle for. Bending to one knee in supplication, baring his chest with soldierly bravado, singing with graceful, silvery mastery, Domingo made their touching Act I duet a true meeting of romantic equals...
Halfway down Fleet Street, London's Newspaper Row, stands an oasis named El Vino. There, over vintage wines and aged whisky, reporters and editors swap the stories that tough British libel laws discourage them from printing. One of the most durable topics over the past few years has been the flamboyant personality and liberal accounting methods of Captain Robert Maxwell, 46, who built tiny Pergamon Press into a major scientific publishing house. Among financial editors there was a common conviction that the Czech-born publisher, who won a military cross while fighting with the British in World...
...festivities began a day ahead of time as early arrivals gathered in the Deep River Inn, a bar on Main Street, to shout greetings, swap tales and compare instruments above the din of indoor fifing. Drummers, however, are usually kind enough not to play their instruments indoors; instead they rattle their sticks on the Formica tabletops. Unlike contemporary bands, fifers and drummers shun all modern innovations. Calfskin heads are used on drums instead of plastic ones, and a system of rope and leather ears is utilized to keep the heads taut, rather than metal rods. The fife must...