Word: alexandrov
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people were not born but mass-produced in retorts and female yearnings for motherhood were assuaged by a quick shot of "pregnancy substitute." The only utopia currently available for study is not up to feelies yet, but it is ready to report progress. Last week, Russian Movie Director Grigory Alexandrov announced that the Soviet film industry was on the verge of producing smellies. Said he: "We want to look through the screen as through a window. We want to hear, to see, but also to smell the breeze of the sea, the perfume of flowers and of green pastures...
...floodlit portrait of Lenin looked down from the façade of Moscow's Bolshoi Theater. But when the official party arrived, the crowd's eyes turned from Lenin's benignly sly features to those of Premier Stalin. Inside, on the red-draped stage, Georgi Fiodorovich Alexandrov, chief of the Party Central Committee's Bureau of Propaganda and Agitation, delivered the memorial address...
...them was promptly forthcoming. It concerned Professor S. P. Alexandrov, Soviet adviser to the Soviet delegation to the Atomic Energy Commission. Said Alexeev: "It was hardly of his own free will that Professor Alexandrov, known in America, a prominent expert in metallurgy and former director of the Institute of Non-Ferrous Metals, accepted in 1936 the job of chief engineer of the GULAG (Department of Concentration Camps...
...body of their stories, the papers reported Professor Alexandrov's remarks more or less accurately, but in their headlines and leads they gave the impression that he was talking about international "control" and "supervision." Since the Russian had no such things in mind, he denounced the stories as "sensation" reporting. Delegate Andrei Gromyko further squelched the matter by claiming that Alexandrov had merely drawn attention to the lack of information on raw materials -that and nothing more. As for controls, Gromyko added, "the Soviet delegation considers the national control to be sufficient...
Meanwhile, however, the U.S. delegates had perked up when they heard Alexandrov talking about "balance sheets." Would the balance sheets, they asked, be "audited"-that is, checked by some outside agency? Remembering that he is more of a scientist than a diplomat, Professor Alexandrov pulled in his neck. He was not prepared to answer right away, he said, but would bring the matter up again at some later time...