Word: petersburg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LENINGRAD by Nigel Gosling. 252 pages. Dutton. $25. Leningrad, formerly St. Petersburg, lies on the bleak landscape of Communist Russia like an ornate brooch, a city unexpectedly and astonishingly brilliant with its canals and palaces and blue-and-white cathedrals and marble statues and gilded domes glinting in the wintry sun. Author Gosling, art critic of London's Observer, and Photographer Colin Jones have successfully limned the luminous city built by that savage giant, Peter the Great (1672-1725), along the soggy shores of the Neva. It became the seat of the czars and of Russian culture; Pushkin...
...Statehouse (including the two-year unexpired term of a Governor who died in office), Collins later headed the Federal Community Relations Service, which was set up by the 1964 Civil Rights Act to provide inter-racial conciliation; he is now U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce. According to the St. Petersburg Times's statewide poll of urban residents, LeRoy Collins today would get 59% of the vote v. 21% for Slick Burns, with 20% undecided. Collins was clearly interested. Having sniffed the political air since election day, he non-announced last week: "If I run for this...
...that it "tended to outrage public opinion or decency." Since CBS insists that its drama was mainly based on Youssoupoff's own books, the Manhattan jury must now decide whether the TV film strayed too far from those earlier histories of what happened 49 years ago in St. Petersburg...
Suits & More Suits. The Florida accident occurred in 1963, as State Legislators James T. Russell and David C. Anderson were driving home to St. Petersburg from a session of the legislature in Tallahassee. On U.S. Highway 19, Russell's 1962 Corvair Monza went out of control and overturned, hurling Anderson out the door. He died six days later...
...thoroughgoing defense. It hired St. Petersburg Attorney Robert Nunez and another local lawyer, dispatched two G.M. general counsels from Detroit, also sent down G.M. Engineer Horatio Shakespeare. To counter the claim that the Corvair's doors were weak, the company brought in a metallurgist from the University of Illinois and an accident specialist from U.C.L.A. G.M. reconstructed aspects of the accident by crashing three cars, took motion pictures of the crashes in both color and black and white...