Word: ivans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bouncy little man in Moscow's Red Square last week acted much as many tourists do, gawking at the Kremlin's towers through his thick, hornrimmed glasses, praising Russian hospitality and greeting every Ivan he could find with a breezy "I'm from London. How are you?" The visitor was British Foreign Secretary George Brown, 52, making his first trip to the Soviet Union to discuss with Premier Aleksei Kosygin and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko a peace plan for Viet Nam and the problems of nuclear proliferation. Brown did not get far with the Russians...
Shield on the Underbelly. The highway project reflects Bulgaria's growing interest in cultivating its once-hated Balkan neighbors. Foreign Minister Ivan Bashev visited Ankara last year, recently approved an agreement with Greece to increase trade and tourism. Exulted one Bulgarian in Sofia last week: "The Balkan powder keg is a thing of the past." Nothing dies harder in the Balkans than ancient history, however, and the Bulgarians are still effusive each year in their thanks to Russia for freeing them from Turkish bondage 88 years ago. What's more, the Kremlin is pleased to see Bulgaria...
...Ivan's Future. The Kremlin's gropings toward ruble sanity have not gone unrecognized in Washington. Last week President Johnson, moving to ease East-West tensions, announced a dramatic liberalization of trade with Moscow and the satellites, removing hundreds of items from the list of goods that American businessmen have been prohibited from selling the Communists. Among them: machinery and equipment, whose purchase is to be financed by the U.S. Export-Import Bank, for use in the Fiat automobile factory in Togliatti. There may yet be a Ford in Ivan's future...
...show a blank horizon, when suddenly the Gidrofon jumps into action, heading out to intercept American ships far in the distance. Some U.S. experts think the Soviets are equipped with a below-the-horizon radar that Moscow has bragged about but never shown. "I don't know how Ivan does it," says Hilder, "but I'm impressed...
Computer expert Ivan E. Sutherland has been named associate professor of Electrical Engineering, Sutherland, who was director of the Defense Department's computer research division before he came to Harvard this term, may teach a graduate seminar in the Spring...