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...some asked, how often will a woman get to wear such fantasy clothes? As the perennially best-dressed Mrs. William McCormick ("Deeda") Blair Jr., of Washington and international society, said in Paris, "It's not every day of my life I'd want to look like a Ukrainian peasant!" (She has not yet put down any kopeks for one of Saint Laurent's new creations...
From Armenian to Ukrainian, practically every cuisine in the world is available in New York City's 20,000 restaurants. But in many of these places, one does not live by matzoth, pita or tortillas alone. People go to some restaurants to see or be seen. Visitors are usually torn about trying those famous-and expensive -places that often threaten humiliation in some Siberia or ketchup room reserved for anonymous (to the maitre d') citizens...
Last week Soviet Scientist Leonid I. Plyushch was finally able to tell about it. Still hesitant in speech, uncertain at times of his surroundings, the drawn, chain-smoking Ukrainian mathematician appeared at a Paris press conference to discuss both his life as a dissident in the U.S.S.R. and his three-year purgatory in Soviet prisons and mental hospitals. He had been accused of anti-Soviet activities, namely protesting the arrests and trials of other dissidents and publishing his views in samizdat (underground) publications. In what is now a classic Soviet method of punishing dissidents, Plyushch was interrogated, imprisoned and finally...
...most surprising feature of demographic research here, she said, is the interdisciplinary approach Harvard has toward population studies. The staff at the Ukrainian institute is comprised solely of professional demographers, whereas Harvard's population center is a composite of experts from different disciplines...
Steshenko is head of the Department of Theoretical and Applied Research at the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, and is travelling on a four month UNESCO fellowship to the US and England...