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David A. Aloian '49, Executive Director of the Harvard Alumni Association--the official sponsor of the afternoon exercises--missed Marshall's speech by two years. However, he recalls an equally famous address by Russian defector and author Alexsandr I. Solzhenitsyn...
...Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn's commencement address on the decline and fall of the West may have been the biggest graduation media event since a man named Marshall took the podium over 30 years...
...Shevchenko's skipper, Alexsandr Gupalov, was handed a card advising him in Russian of his right to remain silent and to legal counsel. Ten hours later, after the Coast Guard's request to seize the trawler had been approved by President Jimmy Carter, the boarding party informed Gupalov that his ship was now under U.S. command. As the Stars and Stripes were run up its mast, the trawler started toward Boston harbor. Two days later the cutter Reliance brought in the Snechkus and its cargo of allegedly illegal herring. At week's end the Shevchenko was still...
Among the variety of new Russian jet liners they saw on display at Le Bourget, U.S. experts were most impressed by the potential of the YAK-40, a 23-passenger, tri-jet transport designed by Aeronautical Engineer Sergei Yakovlev, 27, son of famed Soviet Aircraft Designer Alexsandr Sergeevich Yakovlev, for whom earlier YAK planes were named. What he had in mind, said Yakovlev, was a replacement for the famous old DC-3. Yakovlev's workhorse jet has thick, high-lift wings, big flaps, a relatively slow cruising speed of 450 m.p.h. and fat, soft tires-enabling it to land...
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