Word: ivans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...youth Ivan Stepanovich Mazepa (1644-1709) was sent to Warsaw to pick up a courtly education as a page to King John Casimir V of Poland. Mazepa, the story goes, picked up the wife of a Polish nobleman. The lady's husband surprised the lovers and ended the courtly phase of Mazepa's education by tying him naked on the back of a wild horse and turning the horse out onto the steppes. Rescued by Ukrainian Cossacks, Mazepa soon rose to leadership among them. When Charles XII began his invasion of Russia, Mazepa, to the disgust of most...
Natural Causes. In Winnipeg, Man., when a motorist complained that his Ford screeched like a cat, Mechanic Ivan Booth lifted up the car hood, found a badly frightened cat perched on the battery...
...Ivan R. Tannehill, also of the Weather Bureau, is less skeptical. He thinks the U.S. climate is really getting warmer and probably drier too. His tentative explanation: a slow increase in radiation from...
...Wavering. Long Moscow's only correspondent in Washington, Todd now shares the load with Mikhail Fedorov, 31, Tass's Ivan-come-lately Washington bureau chief (TIME, Nov. 21), who covers the White House, the Pentagon, Treasury and other agencies, and with Pittsburgh-born Jean Montgomery,*fortyish, who reports for Tass from Capitol Hill. To newsmen who wonder why Todd works for Russia, Todd has a carefully double-negative reply: he would not be working for the Russians if he did not believe they are for a peaceful world...
...hero, Figaro, is far too subdued in the role of a shrewd, extravagant character. Roshanne Dunjhibboy creates a Countess of Almaviva who is completely believable, although lacking some comic spirit. David Bowen is a pleasure to watch as the drunken gardener, and John Gates, Michael Mabry, and Ivan Nabokoff are all alert and lively performers...