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...Kremlin's conciliatory new look in the early years of the post-Stalin era. For more than a decade, he was a member of the Soviet Union's ruling elite. Yet by the time he died last week at age 79 after a long illness, Nikolai Alexandrovich Bulganin had become an unperson in his homeland, an ignored and forgotten figure who in his last years idled away his time strolling along Moscow's boulevards and watching chess games in the park. Izvestia devoted only a paragraph to his obituary and no officials attended the perfunctory 30-minute...
...most of the psychiatrists appear to suffer from unresolved authority conflicts. Take the exasperated analysis of Medvedev bv one Dr. Lifshits, the book's most visible villain: "Another person with his intellect would be able in time to adjust and adapt-this is the normal thing-but Zhores Alexandrovich is unable to do this. He just forges ahead, ignoring the reality situation...
...answering routine questions, indicated that he had spent part of his Army service as a cryptographer, was thoroughly familiar with U.S. code systems and cryptographic techniques. He was told he would hear from the Russians later. Back home in Springfield, Mass. last April, he was visited by one Vadim Alexandrovich Kirilyuk, who introduced himself as a member of the Trusteeship Division of the United Nations Secretariat,† told him his scholarship application was coming along nicely. But what a shame it was, said Kirilyuk, to waste all that valuable experience in cryptography. While waiting for the scholarship...
...fair return for the lavish displays of foods, fireworks and fineries laid out in her honor at every turn, Elizabeth dazzled her hosts with her own rarest jewels, including an emerald tiara intertwined with diamonds formerly owned by the Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna, wife of the Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia, and the famed 26-carat pink diamond from the mines of Tanganyika that was a wedding gift to Elizabeth. Beneath her glittering tiaras, the Queen's smile was invariably radiant. But perhaps the diplomatic device by which Elizabeth most thoroughly endeared herself to the exquisitely gowned ladies...
...Tchaikovsky. Bernstein was the sensation of Tanglewood that year (1940). One day a famous actress saw him conduct. "Dahling!" she husked at him later. "I've gone mad about your back muscles. You must come and have dinner with me." Then there were some difficult decisions to make. Serge Alexandrovich Koussevitzky. himself a Jew, and rather sensitive, begged Lennie to change his unglamorous name so that his way to success would not be blocked by antiSemitism. Lennie said: "I'll do it as Bernstein...