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...star and a dashing American naval officer met at a Soviet-American friendship party in Moscow given by then Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov Zoya Fyodorova, 33, was at the peak of her career; she had starred in a dozen roles and had received an offer from MGM. Captain Jackson Tate, 47, had been assigned to Moscow to help the Russians in an abortive plan for the Soviet bombing of Japan. In the brief glow of Allied wartime collaboration, Zoya and Jack fell in love. Their last meeting was on V-E day 1945, when they hoped a child was conceived...
...Jack Tate, who returned to the U.S. and married, was unaware of Zoya's fate and of the existence of his daughter until 1963. An American guide at a 1959 U.S. exhibit in Moscow had met Zoya and heard her story, and after a four-year search for Tate finally located him. His letters to Zoya were returned by the Soviet post office until 1973, when one was delivered to her by hand. Since then Tate, a retired rear admiral living in Orange Park, Fla., has been corresponding with his lost family. In a recent letter to Zoya...
...Moscow, Victoria's request for a three-month exit permit to visit Tate met with stony silence from the Soviet visa office and disapproval from the secret police. Hoping that publicity would jog the authorities, Victoria turned to the Western press. She told reporters that she fears her career is in jeopardy. Although she was the cover girl of Soviet Screen last March, her picture has been removed from the official Soviet film-export office in Moscow, and her bosses have grown markedly cool...
Historical Fumes. Martin Butlin, keeper of the British Collection at the Tate Gallery, points out in the catalogue that Turner's cataclysms were meant to replace the older European tradition of personified myth-wrathful Zeus and so forth-and thus they moralize nature itself. Turner, a self-taught man, was no classical scholar, and he made blunders of erudition about myth and history. Yet as Butlin puts it, "Turner's moral philosophy was a matter of passion and visual expression, not of strict archaeology and attention to sources . . . The fumes of history filled his brain...
...problem is to write cohesive laws that will clearly define Burns' "strategic industries or enterprises." Certainly there should be no investment large enough to enable a foreigner to dic tate policy in U.S. defense industries or in transportation, tele vision networks and other communications industries. The problem for Congress is to meld somehow the interests of OPEC investors and the American desire to maintain unquestioned di rection of sensitive industries...