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Died. Evgeny Dmitrievich Kiselev, 54, Russia's top man in the U.N. Secretariat as Under Secretary for Political and Security Council Affairs, a smooth, ever-smiling career diplomat who was Ambassador to Cairo (1955-59), where he wooed Nasser during the Suez crisis with promises of Russian arms; after a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...Generation. American scientists have verified most of the meager information coming from the Russians, but many believe that the whole story has not been told. One bit of news from Russia backs this suspicion. Soviet Scientist Yury Dmitrievich Boulanger said on the Moscow radio that the sputnik was radioing information about its encounters with micro-meteors. If so, it is probably making other observations...
Died. Efim Dmitrievich Bogolyubov, 64, Russian-born German national chess champion; of a heart attack; in Triberg, Germany. Beefy Bogolyubov kept chess enthusiasts the world over in seemingly endless anxiety in 1929 when he took on Dr. Aleksandr Alekhin of Paris in a 25-game world championship match, played in Wiesbaden, Heidelberg, Berlin, The Hague, Rotterdam and Amsterdam-and lost...
...year eleven in the life of a pale, slight, impressionable little bourgeois boy who clung to a servant's hand in the battle-littered streets of Petrograd. Said the servant: "This is the revolution, Mitya." Young Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich only stared and clutched the servant's apron. But what he saw and heard he pondered in his precocious head. Once safe at home, he sat down and composed two pieces: Hymn to Liberty and Funeral March to the Victims of the Revolution. A prodigy and a prodigious event...
Some physiologists believe that sleep is the result of chemical changes in the blood. Professor Alexei Dmitrievich Speransky who has Irina & Galina in charge and reported on her to the Gorki All-Union Institute of Experimental Medicine, thinks he has contradictory evidence. Irina & Galina's two heads share the same blood stream, but they wink, blink & nod off to sleep at different times. Sleep, reasons the professor, as did his celebrated predecessor, Ivan Pavlov, must be a nervous phenomenon...