Word: armenians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pleasure Factory is so named by the resort's manager. Vartan Lipyan, a clever Armenian who runs the place splendidly for the customers, the state and especially for himself. No Communist, Lipyan has made his first million, and is happily stacking up a second. The local party boss knows that Lipyan is not one of the faithful, but he is too shrewd to rock a setup that makes him look good. The truth, says Tarsis, is that these socialist vacations on the regime leave plenty of opportunity for grafters, people who charge exorbitant rents for private houses and those...
Looking more a Mad Armenian than a young Gaelic fighter is James Hoare as Diarmuid. Last night Hoare delivered most of his lines like a town crier, which may have been indicative more of first night uneasiness than anything else. In some seenes, especially the later ones with Finn, he was much more relaxed and much more effective...
...Moscow Conservatory are, he says, "very modern." Their teacher's own prevailing conservatism has produced its own rewards: an eight-room apartment in Moscow (in a building where Shostakovich, Rostropovich and several other Soviet musicians also live), a summer home, another estate presented to him by the Armenian government, two cars, two chauffeurs and a large staff of servants. "I suppose that makes me a capitalist," he says, not at all ruefully...
...quick delivery, the Russians developed a non-splintering antiaircraft shell that could accurately deliver a load of silver iodide as far away as 22 miles without scattering dangerous fragments on populated areas below. Selecting locations in the northern Caucasus, Georgia and the Armenian Republic that lie in a Soviet hail belt, the Russians set up enough radar installations and antiaircraft guns to detect and treat clouds over an area of 1,200,000 acres. During 1964 and 1965, thousands of shells were fired into threatening clouds...
...known as Mounds and another, with almonds added, called Almond Joy. What the kids may not care about is that Mounds and Almond Joy outsell even the Hershey bar among 100 candies. On the basis of these two products, Peter Paul Inc.-named for one of a group of Armenian immigrants who organized the company in 1919-made its way for years in a prosperous but unpretentious way. "They were a nice little business," says Zender today, "but they were reluctant to move ahead...