Word: alexandrov
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...palace on time. Buses broke down bearing his entourage of 60 (including Wife Muriel, Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, a personal photographer, and an official in charge of "the box" of codes needed to respond to a thermonuclear war in case Lyndon Johnson should die). Soviet Diplomat Alexander Alexandrov found his hotel room accidentally wired up to a U.S. communications center. Reporters covering the Vice President were crammed into a hastily scrubbed brothel armed with cans of bug repellent. But next morning Humphrey was cheerily wishing all comers a hearty New Year as his feet sank into melting...
Alexander Danilovich Alexandrov, SC.D., Soviet mathematician...
...Harder Than Space. Twice this summer. Nasser sent delegations to Moscow demanding more and better service. In July the Russians agreed to fire the Soviet project director. Dr. Ivan Kosmin. who had built the great Kuibyshev Dam on the Volga. His replacement. Dr. Alexander Alexandrov. took one quick look at Aswan and rushed back to Moscow to ask for more machines and technicians. The most ominous result of these stops and starts, plan changes and equipment failures, was that rock excavation fell far behind schedule, with only 7,300.000 out of a total of 26 million tons of granite drilled...