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...life Lydia wanted to dance. Even before her family moved to France from Poland when she was seven, she was already attending the Warsaw Opera Ballet school. Ten years later when the Nazis overran France, Lydia's father Wladimir became a Resistance chief for the French underground's F-1 foreign-born unit, and the 17-year-old Lydia became an invaluable spy. Each day she played the role of an ingenuous, admiring schoolgirl watching Nazi troop movements; at night, from the Lipskis' Pigalle apartment, "Cipine" radioed her findings to London. Handy with pen and brush, Lydia...
...standard of decent living? The world needs at least another $25 billion worth of food a year and another $15 to $25 billion in housing, medicine, clothing, etc.,-an increase of 7% to 10% in present world production of consumer goods and services. This is the estimate of Economists Wladimir and Emma Woytinsky, a husband & wife team who have spent five years compiling an exhaustive (1,268 pages) study, World Population and Production, published by the Twentieth Century Fund...
Listening to the Queen's weary voice, Dutch oldsters could remember her ascent to the throne as a girl of 18. They remembered the rejoicing and feasting at her marriage with Henry Wladimir, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in 1901; the birth of Juliana in 1909 and that of Beatrix (oldest daughter of Juliana and her husband, Prince Bernhard) in 1938. Most vividly, they remembered Wilhelmina's radio broadcasts from London during the Nazi occupation, when she heartened the underground: "The Netherlands will rise again...
...Maurice Thorez led the rhetorical rowdedow. Cried he: "The imperialist reactionary forces of America . . . have instituted gangster methods of tear gas as the first step to war. . . ." (So eloquent was Thorez that even listeners who did not understand French had tears in their eyes.) Cried Bulgaria's Wladimir Popomatov: "No iron curtain shall ever rise between us-none shall raise Chinese walls between progressive eastern and western workers. . . . Forward together, fighters for peace...
...Luck & Good. Queen Wilhelmina's choice of a consort was Henry Wladimir, youngest son of the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Henry was a taxidermist's dream of a German princeling, a beady-eyed, mean-spirited fellow, of whom the best that can be said is that he learned his place (considerably below the throne) and that, after eight years of marriage, he fathered Princess Juliana...