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When the Russian-born sumo wrestler Wakanoho Toshinori (real name Soslan Aleksandrovich Gagloev) dropped his wallet on a street in Tokyo's Sumida Ward on June 24, he might have seemed to be in luck: The wallet was found by an honest woman, who delivered it, with its contents intact, to a police station. Unfortunately for the young rikishi, as sumo wrestlers are known, the contents of his wallet included not only money and his alien registration card, but also a joint containing 0.368 grams of marijuana. On August 18, Wakanoho was arrested, and a search of his residence turned...
Died. Arkady Aleksandrovich Sobolev, 61, Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister and longtime (1955-60) delegate to the U.N. who never banged a shoe or threw phony fits but achieved dubious fame in 1956 when he pooh-poohed the Hungarian uprising as a conspiracy among "fascist counterrevolutionaries"; after a long illness; in Moscow...
...tall, grey-haired woman doctor, Maria Sergeevna Gaievskaya, described methods developed in Dr. Vladimir Aleksandrovich Negovsky's Resuscitation Laboratory in Moscow. The lab is already famous for its success in reviving thousands of suffocation victims, some heart attack victims, and some stillbirths by pumping blood-bank blood into arteries under pressure during the six minutes after "clinical death." Dr. Gaievskaya's findings offer an explanation of that six minutes of grace...
...terse little paragraph on the back page of Pravda disclosed last week that "Army General Ivan Aleksandrovich Serov has been released from his duties as chairman of the State Security Committee in connection with his transfer to other duties." The announcement, which was not even repeated on the Soviet radio, was as brusque as it was brief. Just as in the case of the disgraced war hero, Marshal Georgy Zhukov, it failed to say what the general's new duties would be-and Zhukov has yet to turn up in another post...
Germany only momentarily happy. Last week, as perhaps the last installment of prisoners came back from Soviet slave camps, Adenauer got his Russian: 53-year-old Valerian Aleksandrovich Zorin, first Soviet Ambassador to West Germany...