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...Union last week by U.S. and West European short-wave radio. For Winner Andrei Sakharov, 54, the prize climaxed a long and often lonely struggle for human rights in the Soviet Union. Dressed in a baggy gray suit and ill-fitting shirt, he talked with newsmen in his gloomy two-room apartment near the Kremlin. "I hope this will help political prisoners," he said. The phone rang constantly with calls from friends and well-wishers in Russia and abroad. His wife, Pediatrician Yelena Bonner, telephoned congratulations from Italy, where she is recovering from an operation for glaucoma. Connected by phone...
...effort at personal mediation is imminent. He is expected to leave Washington this week and to stay in the Middle East no longer than ten days. His schedule was cleared for all of this week, and the State Department has reportedly reserved the Secretary's usual sixth-floor two-room suite in Jerusalem's King David Hotel...
...housing, cost next to nothing and, to the envy of the rest of the world, have not increased in price in 20 years; yet "luxury" items, such as bicycles or radios, can soak up months of savings. The average urban worker is likely to: live in a drab, two-room unit in a massive, slate-gray apartment complex; work a 48-hour week; spend his Sunday picnicking in one of China's shady parks; pass his evenings in a workers' cultural palace watching a variety show (full of revolutionary songs and skits), learning a musical instrument, or playing...
...training recommendation: one bottle of Ballantine Ale every day. Some of these men lived half their lives down at the boat-house. One, who always chewed on long cigars but never lit them, was so dedicated to rowing that he tried to build a shell in his two-room apartment, or so the story goes. But his wife told him either the boat went or she did, and according to all accounts, he's now sharing the apartment with two shells...
Things are bound to get worse. The Fiat layoff will eventually affect 50,000 employees of satellite industries. Turin householders, meanwhile, have already been notified that heating-oil prices will be doubled this year from $15 a month to $30 for a two-room apartment...