Word: ilyich
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...have a far greater impact on the economy in Russia than in most Western nations-have clearly collapsed the Communists' hopes of overtaking the U.S. in the foreseeable future. This is a galling personal defeat for both Khrushchev and his heir apparent, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, a Ukrainian who has been his protege during the long, hard-fought battle to raise Russian living standards. Since 1960, burly, bushy-browed Brezhnev, 57, has been Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet and Russia's titular head of state...
...other synthetics, Khrushchev said that, with help, Russia by 1971 would have a chemical industry comparable to any that Western countries have taken decades to build. Said he: "It would be stupid to ignore the achievements of foreign science only because they were made in a capitalist country. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin did not consider it a shame to learn from the capitalists...
...write well about death is never easy and always dangerous. Words tend to become solemn; compassion blends with sentimental pity; and the reader may easily find himself stirred by nothing stronger than acute discomfort. Tolstoy managed superbly in The Death of Ivan Ilyich, and Flaubert in Madame Bovary. This first novel challenges neither of the masters but shows that modesty and sympathy can be enough to make a death seem both dignified and touching...
Died. Semyon Ilyich Bogdanov, 65, Soviet Marshal of the Army and member of the Supreme Soviet, who fought in the Battle of Stalingrad and led the final assault on Berlin, later (1948) became commander of Soviet armored forces; in Moscow...
Swan Lake (Columbia), the less remarkable of the two, is a photographed performance of the well-known ballet set to music by Composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, as it is danced by the modern masters of the 19th century tradition, the corps de ballet of Moscow's Bolshoi Theater...