Word: ivans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rising Deputy. When Stalin split the unwieldy Soviet security apparatus into two branches, Kruglov became MVD boss, controlling a crack security army of a million men. His deputy: Colonel Ivan Serov. After Stalin's death. Internal Affairs Minister Beria began liquidating top security bosses, but before he had gone far-or far enough-he was himself arrested. The day of Beria's arrest. Kruglov's troops blocked all exits and entrances to Moscow, froze the city tight. The same day, Premier Malenkov named Kruglov Minister of Internal Affairs in place of Beria...
...Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev rapidly rising. Shortly after Malenkov's dramatic resignation (February 1955), the world learned that Kruglov was not, after all, top Soviet security man, but that there had existed for some months a higher State Security Committee, presided over by Kruglov's former deputy Ivan Serov. When Khrushchev went junketing to India, it was Serov who went along with him. Meanwhile, Minister Kruglov's department was under oblique criticism: his organization had failed to curb abuses in such pet Khrushchev projects as the building industry and the Virgin Land...
Heavyweight Ted Morrison seems likely to maintain his undefeated status against the Lions' Ivan Samsonoff, whom he has beaten before. Dick Hook will face Columbia's strongest wrestler, Captain Harry Scott, and Casper Cronk will go at 177, John Winthrop at 130, Phil Andrews at 137, and Tatsuo Arima...
...story from El Capellán de la Virgen (The Virgin's Chaplain), reprinted in the current American Psychologist. No clearer exposition of the principle of conditioned reflexes has ever been written. As every Russian schoolboy knows, reflex conditioning was unknown until it was discovered by Russian Physiologist Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936). El Capellán de la Virgen, a play about the life of Saint Ildefonso (606-667), Archbishop of Toledo, was written by the Spanish Dramatist Lope de Vega about...
Pastures for Germany. In another of his characteristic, clear reports, Ambassador Harriman described a conversation with Ivan Maisky, Russia's Assistant Foreign Minister, on the future of postwar Germany. Maisky insisted upon 1) dismemberment of Germany, 2) dismantling of German industry to 25% of its previous productive capacity, 3) deportation to Russia of 2,000,000 to 3,000,000 German men and women slave laborers for perhaps ten years. "It was the Russians' hope," Harriman concluded dryly,, "that this experience . . . should be handled in such a way as to re-educate the Germans. If they showed signs...