Eric writes: >Anyone offhand know when Vainberg's 80th birthday will be? According to this url [http://home.worldonline.nl/~ovar/bvainbe.html] his dates of arriving and departure are; Born: 8 December 1919 in Warsaw. Died: 26 February 1996 in Moscow. So there is still good time to bake him that magnificent cake... I guess Eric, that You're coming to the party? Peter Lundin. Gothenburg, Sweden