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Alexander Feodorovich Kerensky is one of the most famous forgotten men of modern times. By history's stern reckoning, he is also one of the luckiest -and one of the unluckiest. Lucky, because 48 years ago this week he escaped with his life after Lenin's Bolsheviks deposed him as the first Prime Minister of the Russian Revolution; unlucky, because for nearly half a century he has been the archetype of all political exiles: stateless, often dependent on the hospitality of friends, sometimes hounded by enemies and attacked by onetime followers, a forlorn wanderer between London, Paris...
...spike heels, stylish clothes, and a perfume called Red Moscow. From space she radioed ground control: "Please tell Mamma not to worry." Once, when ground scientists lost contact with "Seagull" (Valya's orbital call name), they hastily ordered her cosmic companion in Vostok V, Lieut. Colonel Valery Feodorovich Bykovsky, to try and rouse her. "Sorry, I was having a snooze," apologized Valya...
...odds the most extraordinary date a man and woman ever had. The Soviets one day last week orbited Vostok V, piloted by Air Force Lieut. Colonel Valery Feodorovich Bykovsky, 28. LISTEN WORLD, headlined Izvestia, SOVIET MAN IS AGAIN STORMING THE COSMOS. But this time, Soviet Woman was storming right along. Two days later, Bykovsky was joined in orbit by the first female in space, Lieut. Valentina Vladimirovna Chereshkova, 26, at the controls of Vostok VI. In radio and television transmission to the breathless spectators on the ground, he referred to himself as "The Hawk," while she called herself "The Seagull...
...Australian acquaintances, Soviet Embassy First Secretary Ivan Feodorovich Skripov seemed a likable sort, as Soviet diplomats go. He was a good talker, an enthusiastic partygoer and a back-slapping practical joker who often laced his guests' beer with vodka, guffawing when they caught on. But amiable Ivan was more than a spoofer. He was also...
...music were at full flood, and the British Broadcasting Corp. was boldly planning a year's project to play all 102 of his works. But as he neared his 80th birthday, in company with another of the century's great creators (see ART), Igor Feodorovich Stravinsky was his own best celebrator. In Toronto last week he shuffled to the podium, looking owlishly like Sir Cedric Hardwicke, and conducted the CBC Symphony in some of the best music to flow from his pen in years...