Word: ivanovich
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cases, professional colleagues) and vous (for everyone else). The same rules apply for first names. Many cultures have developed wonder fully elaborate forms of address to delineate relationships, to mark their progress. Russians, for example, can open successive doors of intimacy through a marvelously tender procession of diminutives: Ivan Ivanovich, Ivan Ivan'ich, Ivan, Vanya, Vanyushka, Vanyushenka...
...that First Lieut. Victor Ivanovich Belenko gave us a Bicentennial gift...
Soviet jet experts faced a serious problem: despite the use of grain alcohol, an old but effective deicer, the windshields of MIG-25 Foxbat interceptors were icing up. What had gone wrong? The answer, according to Lieut. Viktor Ivanovich Belenko: Soviet crew chiefs on the ground were drinking the grain alcohol to relieve Siberian boredom and surreptitiously replacing the liquid with water...
...that manner, 1st Lieut. Viktor Ivanovich Belenko, 29, last week pulled off one of the most daring escapes of the cold war. In the view of U.S. Air Force and intelligence experts, it was also one of the most significant; Belenko was flying the MIG-25, which has never been examined by Western specialists. Called "Foxbat" in the NATO code, it is the world's fastest weapons-carrying warplane, having attained a record speed* of 1,852.6 m.p.h. and a test altitude of 118,000 ft.-outrunning and outclimbing even the newest U.S. fighter planes. Thus a study...
...invited to join a dance troupe touring and performing for teenagers. They went to Leningrad, where he found the atmosphere of the old czarist capital intoxicating. As a dancer, he could not help visiting the Kirov school. There he happened to attend a class taught by the late Alexander Ivanovich Pushkin, a great master who coached Nureyev and Valery Panov. Not hoping for much, Baryshnikov approached Pushkin (no kin to the famed Russian poet) and said, "I would very much like to be your pupil." Pushkin felt his legs and body and asked him to jump up and down. Says...