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...tour of India, the commander of the Russian navy was acting like the traditional sailor on shore leave. He viewed the Taj Mahal by moonlight, visited the Nehru Museum and the site where Mahatma Gandhi's body was cremated, and shopped for souvenirs. But Admiral Sergei Georgievich Gorshkov's trip to India had an entirely serious purpose, as do all his trips these days. He is trying to line up a worldwide system of ports of call and bases for his navy, and he hoped to persuade India, which is about to receive at least three submarines from the Soviet...
...Sergei Georgievich Lapin, 55, a protege of Party Chairman Leonid Brezhnev, was promoted to director of Tass, Russia's news agency and principal propaganda organ. Tass not only serves Russian newspapers internally but has a worldwide network of 200 men in 93 countries, including four in Washington, is often accused of using them for other purposes than news gathering. A onetime Tassman (1945-55) who later switched to diplomacy and became Deputy Foreign Minister, Lapin has spent the past two years as ambassador to Red China, but has been absent from his post for months because of Chinese demonstrations...
...struck Russians who at the turn of the century flocked to Munich to study painting, one of the best was Alexei Georgievich Jawlensky. In the 1920s he ranked with the more famous Russian Wassily Kandinsky, the late U.S.-born Lyonel Feininger and Swiss-born Paul Klee (TIME, Sept. 17) as a coequal in their "Blue Four" exhibits. Then he was all but forgotten...
...Soviets sent along their naval attaché, Rear Admiral Eugeni Georgievich Glinkov (their new Ambassador has not yet arrived). But because of the U.S.'s part in the partition of Palestine, almost all the Arab League countries' diplomats stayed away...
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