Word: alexandral
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...have a say in everything. At each ministry a Russian adviser sits at the elbow of the Cuban in charge. The Russians are well aware that there is no romance left in Castro's revolution; and they are relentlessly pushing the Cubans to get to work. Soviet Ambassador Alexandr Alexeev has told friends: "Let's give the Cubans three or four years to straighten...
Waiting at the dockside to greet her, and to make political capital, was a Communist delegation led by Soviet Ambassador Alexandr Bogomolov. Beside the beaming, suntanned envoy was Madame Bogomolov, carrying a big armload of flowers. While cameras clicked, she exchanged her bouquet for a sheaf of wheat. Briskly the Voroshilov's crew opened the hatches; there, as the lyrical Agence France Presse reported: "Russian wheat glittered under the sun of France." Later, bands played the French and Russian anthems and Ambassador Bogomolov made a speech in praise of Franco-Russian amity. Then 100 token sacks of Russian amity...
...Rescuing and rebuilding the Air Force, after Germany's assault had all but knocked it out, had been no one-man job. But one man shouldered the heaviest part of the burden and in Russia he gets the lion's share of the credit. He is Marshal Alexandr Alexandrovich Novikov, chief of the Red Air Force...
Designers Sergei Iliushin and Alexandr Yakovlev, both major generals and Heroes of Socialist Labor; Aleksei I. Shakhurin, the People's Commissar for the Aviation Industry; and Marshal Alexandr Novikov...
...Saint Phalle & Co. was dissolved, reorganized, with four partners instead of twelve. Still with the firm is François de Saint Phalle. Not with it are Fal de Saint Phalle, AlexAndré de Saint Phalle, André de Saint Phalle, Pierre de Saint Phalle, Edward J. Lobkowicz...