Word: zoya
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Jackson Tate, 79, retired Navy admiral who won a two-year diplomatic battle to meet the daughter produced by his fleeting wartime affair with a Soviet actress; of cancer; in Jacksonville, Fla. Stationed in Moscow in 1945, Tate met and courted Film Star Zoya Fyodorova. Soviet authorities banished Tate and sent Fyodorova to a hard-labor camp for eight years. Not until 1963 did Tate learn that a daughter, Victoria, had been born of one of their last trysts. Finally in 1975, Victoria, now a film star herself, was granted a three-month exit visa to visit...
...remaining tensions were broken by three comely stewardesses-Zoya, Lyuba and Ira-who distributed copies of the latest Pravda and served a distinctly unproletarian meal of smoked salmon, red and black caviar, roast beef and white wine from the Crimea. The only inflight problem was noise. Conversation was rendered almost impossible by a loud rushing sound that made the flight seem as though it were taking place in a wind tunnel. Alexei Tupolev, the plane's designer, who was aboard the inaugural run, explained that the noise came from a supercharged ventilation system designed to keep passengers cool despite...
...beat the American press," chided retired Rear Admiral Jackson R. Tate, 77, who had just emerged from 18 days of seclusion with his daughter, Soviet Actress Victoria Fyodorova, 29. The child of a wartime love affair between Tate, then a U.S. naval captain in Moscow, and Actress Zoya Fyodorova, Victoria met her father for the first time on March 23. Her visit to the U.S., and the pair's successful retreat to a Florida hideaway, had been arranged and paid for by the gossipy National Enquirer. Last week at a 45-minute press conference in the paper...
When conditions in the camp improved after Stalin's death in 1953, Dolgun added, many of Zoya's films, like the ultra-patriotic Boyevye Podrugi (Comrades at Arms), were shown to the prisoners. But Zoya's name was obliterated from the credits. In 1955 Zoya was released and reunited with her daughter. Since then Zoya has returned to films as a character actress, and Victoria has become a famous movie actress herself. She has been featured in 17 major films, and starred as a deaf-mute in A Ballad of Love. When Ballad was released...
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...