Word: aleksandr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Zaluski have resorted to 19th century allegories that discuss in grave detail the positive qualities of Polish uprisings against the Russians 100 years ago-a theme with sledgehammer relevance in Poland today. The Eastern Europeans are also encouraged by the occasional sounds of independence they hear from Moscow, where Aleksandr Tvardovsky, the editor of the literary weekly Novy Mir, last week threw out a defiant challenge to the regime. "We will listen to criticism," he said, "only when it is worth the great traditions of Russian realism...
...association was founded in 1947 by 24 American campus leaders, including White House Aide Douglass Cater, then a recent Harvard graduate, after a trip to the 1946 World Student Congress in Prague, where lavishly financed Communist groups stole the show; one of their organizers was Komsomol Leader Aleksandr Shelepin, who was later to head the Soviet internal security agency...
Under the new system, only publications that genuinely manage to boost sales are allocated more newsprint, which is perennially in short supply. For instance, Novy Mir Editor Aleksandr Tvardovsky last year received more pages for his crusading literary monthly, which keeps irritating party bosses with exposes of social and economic abuses. Even though (or perhaps because) he had been ousted from the Communist Party Central Committee for "revisionism," readership was going up. Mostly, the competitive pressure is causing the papers to shed some of their drabness. Headlines are boxed in color, the number of pictures has increased, the quality...
...warning to black marketeers all over Russia, excerpts from the trial were broadcast over the state radio net work. Unlike the kangaroo courts of the Stalinist past, however, the proceedings seemed fair enough. State Prosecutor Aleksandr Borodankov went out of his way to point out that the U.S. and Russia had been allies during World War II. Whereas the maximum sentence for such black-market operations is eight years, Borodankov asked only for a five-year term for Wortham, who admitted to three separate transactions, and was willing to let Gilmour (one transaction, no bear) off with...
Charles Townes and Russian Physicists Aleksandr Prochorov and Nikolai Basov Nobel Prizes in 1964-his colleagues have long felt that he was overlooked by the Nobel committee. Kastler's award, said Paris' Le Monde test week, was "the repair of an injustice...