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...first Ukrainian to settle in Canada, Farmer Elyniak had been picked to take part in the Citizenship Week celebrations at Ottawa. Along with 23 other representative Canadians, including Armenian-born Photographer Yousuf Karsh, he would be handed a certificate of citizenship from Chief Justice Rinfret. For the first time the certificates would carry the words "Canadian Citizen" (TIME, May 27) instead of "British Subject"-official evidence of a nation's coming of age. For Citizen Elyniak it would be a fitting last chapter of his life, which is also the story of the settlement and growth of the prairie...
...Kremlin also wanted a Foreign Minister who is relatively well known abroad, especially in the U.S. Anastas Mikoyan, the slick little Armenian who long ran Soviet foreign trade, fills that bill. Eric Johnston called him "a Jesse Jones, a Donald Nelson and a Harry Hopkins rolled into...
...Gang. On the official Politburo list (more important than gorodki scores) Zhdanov now stands fourth-after Stalin, Molotov and the hated Lavrenty Beria, head of the secret police. Of those below Zhdanov, his most serious rival is Georgi Malenkov, 44, a brilliant backstairs intriguer. Others are Anastas Mikoyan, the Armenian foreign trade chief, who enjoys Stalin's personal favor but has little party following, and a dark horse, Nikolai Bulganin, the political boss of the Army. Molotov, Beria and Malenkov are loosely grouped as the reactionary anti-Westerners. But as long as Stalin lives the whole gang will stick...
...rest of his solid, well-balanced speech, Austin ignored Molotov's charges, expressed quiet optimism about U.N.'s achievements. The commissars from the Armenian mountains and the lawyers from the jungle's fringe, the princes of the Arabian desert and the polemicists from the Balkan cafés looked at the immaculate, stocky figure with varying degrees of understanding. Warren Robinson Austin, ex-Senator from Vermont, the President's Special Representative to the General Assembly, was the U.S.'s new Ambassador to the World...
...yards), but Georgia won anyway, 33-to-13. ¶ Fullback Bobby Layne, who is deep in the heart of Texas' fans, got stopped cold by Arkansas' big line, took to the air and pitched one 45-yard pass, another 50-yarder for touchdowns. ¶ A big Armenian (220 Ibs.) named Alexander ("The Great") Sarkisian loomed large in the of Northwestern's line and helped hold favored Michigan...