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Even before he reached his teens, Lev Davidovic Landau was a mathematical prodigy. Before he graduated from the University of Leningrad, the youngster from Azerbaijan was publishing respected scientific papers. As he developed into one of the Soviet Union's leading scientists, he became an expert in many of the far-ranging fields of physics. If he resented the fact that he was rarely trusted to go abroad unchaperoned to collect the numerous awards he won from admiring Western colleagues, he gave no indication. He went right on working, and last week he got his biggest prize...
Stricken Conscience. In 1957 Stashinsky received orders to go to Munich, track down a Ukrainian nationalist writer named Lev Rebet and kill him; an agent sent from Moscow gave him instructions in using the poison-spray gun. The prospect mildly disturbed Stashinsky, but his belief that the Ukrainian extremists were 'people of the lowest sort" stiffened his spirit. Still, when he tested the gun on a dog that was tied to a tree, Stashinsky recalled, "I felt sick. I kept telling myself this was all necessary to help other people. At moments like this you grab on to your...
Next month the best-known Hasidic community in Williamsburg, congregation Yetev Lev, headed by the famed, venerable (about 75) Satmar rabbi, Joel Teitelbaum, will begin building ranch-style and split-level houses on a 500-acre tract in Mount Olive Township. N.J. Besides the houses (average price: $15,000), the congregation plans to build a mikveh (ritual bath), a shopping center, a matzoth bakery, a rabbinical seminary and a synagogue. A number of Hasidic Jews who operate garment factories in lower Manhattan plan to move them to a tract adjacent to their new homes. Ultimately, the move to the suburbs...
Trained in a Moscow spy school for five years, Stachinsky showed up in Munich with a West German passport and an ingeniously designed murder weapon. Though his primary target was Bandera, the Soviets ordered him to perform a trial run on another Ukrainian Nationalist, Writer Lev Rebel. The weapon worked perfectly; the verdict was that Rebel's death was caused by a heart attack. Thus the stage was set for Bandera. As the Ukrainian leader hurried up the stairs of his apartment building one afternoon, Stachinsky stepped out of the shadows to meet him. The agent was wearing...
...more deserving than the man who, even before Khrushchev, alerted the Soviet people to the darker side of Stalin's personality--Lev Davidovich Bronstein? If Stalingrad must be renamed, let it hence-forth be known as Trotskygrad...