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...faithfully serving the empire. He ends up bitter and betrayed. His son Adam abandons his religion in order to join the right fencing club. He becomes an Olympic gold medalist, but--in the film's most haunting sequence--dies in a concentration camp denying his lost Judaism. His son Ivan becomes a communist bureaucrat, then revolts against that totalitarianism. The picture ends virtually as the century does, with Ivan melting into a crowd, all ambitions, all faiths abandoned...
...DIED. IVAN HIRST, 84, British army engineer who retooled Volkswagen's bombed-out factory in Wolfsburg, Germany, at World War II's end to roll out one of the firm's prewar prototypes, which soon became the popular Beetle; in Marsden, England. The British army ordered 20,000 for transport duty, ironically turning Hitler's dream of a "people's car" into a reality...
...conspirators are increasingly removed from the trading floor and can profit through investors they've never met. At the same time, the feds say the Web is making it easier to track insider traders because, as Freeman is alleged to have done, they leave an electronic trail - something Ivan Boesky and Michael Milken never had to worry about...
...DIED. IVAN DEBLOIS COMBE, 88, entrepreneur who created the acne cream Clearasil; in Greenwich, Conn. He also developed Odor-Eaters foot-care products and Just For Men hair color...
...Basil's, Moscow (107 ft.), marked Ivan the Terrible's victory over the Mongols...