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Solzhenitsyn, now living in exile in Zurich, notes that Sholokhov, a former laborer and clerk with scarcely any education, was only 23 years old when he published the first volume in 1928. Yet, Solzhenitsyn points out, "the book reveals the kind of literary power attainable only after many attempts by an experienced and accomplished writer." He also joins many critics in observing that Sholokhov's other fiction (Seeds of Tomorrow, Harvest on the Don) is strikingly inferior to The Quiet Don, which was completed in 1940. It became the best-selling Soviet novel in the U.S.S.R. (6 million copies...
Nowhere was that more apparent than in the money markets in London, Frankfurt and Zurich, where Nixon's departure was viewed as a boon to the U.S. economy. As the inevitability of his resignation became obvious, foreign investors bid the once wallowing American dollar up to new highs. Millions went to purchase stock in American corporations, adding fuel to Wall Street's exuberant "resignation rally...
NATO, since both Greece and Turkey are members, ineffectually attempted to mediate. Britain, which along with Greece and Turkey is a guarantor of Cyprus' sovereignty under the 1960 Zurich treaty that granted it independence, also interceded with both sides...
Alexander Solzhenitsyn has resumed his unrelenting chronicle of Soviet terror, which provoked the Kremlin into deporting him four months ago. From his home in exile in Zurich, the Russian writer gave the signal for the publication of the oft-postponed second volume of his trilogy, The Gulag Archipelago, by the Russian-language Y.M.C.A. Press in Paris.* An exhaustive, harrowing 657-page account of the forced-labor system under Lenin and Stalin, Gulag II may well be Solzhenitsyn's most stunning achievement to date...
...back to Europe, this time by costly air freight. Ross thinks it significant that they were rushed back directly after the injunction against sales went into action on June 23. By June 29, Ross claimed, 19 of Marinotti's 20 Rothkos, among others, were in a warehouse in Zurich where, if they had not yet been sold, they would have been out of U.S. jurisdiction. In Ross's view, this haste suggests an intent to de fraud. In Marlborough's, it is merely evidence of a brisk desire to keep the decks cleared by moving sold commodities...