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...publications they please and to buy luxury goods denied others. By Russian standards, their salaries are princely; Nesmeyanov makes 30,000 tax-free rubles ($7,500) a month, besides thousands more for teaching, lecturing, appearing on TV or writing books. Even after an academician dies, his privileges continue. His widow may get a pension and a lump sum of 75,000 rubles, his grandchildren may get extra allowances while in school. A British visitor noted that the chief topic of conversation among Soviet scientists, aside from their work, is the servant problem...
...himself in napkins and tablecloths to give improvisations. He cheated at games, drank his coffee out of the saucer, courted well-placed mistresses to get quartermaster handouts for his uniforms, proposed to women years his senior to land a fortune. In the end he settled for the wanton Creole widow, Rose-Josephine de Beauharnais. A French marriage, he felt, would make him French, and he changed his name accordingly, dropping the "u." Later he admitted that Josephine had come straight from another lover's bed, but there was sentiment of a sort. On St. Helena Napoleon confessed: "I really...
...nothing to eat but cactus, and after five days my mother said she could not go on," recalled Ernesto da Silva, 17, sitting in a rocky field in the drought-burned eastern state of Pernambuco. "She was a widow but not old. She lay down by the road and told me to go. A man gave me 40? for a day's work. I bought food and hurried back to my mother, but when I got there she was dead...
Despite such bows to Soviet realism in the Moscow Theater's first new Orchard since 1947, the production came to London with the blessing of Chekhov's Actress-Widow Olga Knipper Chekhova. Moreover, Londoners, to whom Chekhov is as familiar as Shaw or Sheridan, seemed to approve. The first-night audiences -including such personages as Defense Minister Duncan Sandys and Lady Churchill -gave the group nine curtain calls. And one sack-clad miss added the awed, ultimate compliment: "You don't need to speak Russian to understand...
...November 1955, while working in a University Dining Halls kitchen, a chef cut his finger. Two months later he died of acute monocytic leukemia. When his widow applied for compensation, a member of the state Industrial Accident Board ruled that the chef's death was causally related to a staphylococcus infection resulting from the cut. Lawyers for Harvard have stated that medical information and "the judgment of most hematologists" do not support this position...