Word: ivans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exchanged nationals who had been held on charges of spying. It was the second time the two countries have swapped prisoners in this fashion. The first: Communist Agent Rudolf Abel was traded for U-2 Pilot Gary Powers in 1962. In last week's exchange the U.S. released Ivan Egorov, a Soviet U.N. functionary, and his wife Alexandra, who were arrested last July in New York for espionage. In return, the Soviets let go 24-year-old Fulbright Scholar Marvin Makinen, who was sentenced to eight years in prison in 1961 on photo-taking espionage charges; and Jesuit Priest...
...indiginous creativity that does not necessarily conform to the dictates of socialist realism. Their efforts have been occasionally successful, but the Party's policies towards literature continue to be dominated by political considerations. When Premier Khrushchev decided the publication of the startling novel One Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovitch would be a wise political move, he made it. When it appeared the pressure for intellectual freedom engendered by the publication was growing out of hand, Khrushchev summarily quashed the dissident voices...
Best known among the other winners were Sam Francis, who lofts petals of color on huge expanses of canvas, and Ivan Albright, painter of meticulous magic-realist works. Kenzo Okada won with his serenely pale abstract, Posterity, which blends European and Oriental idioms. Least appealing of the prizewinners were Ennio Morlotti's garishly colored, gouged abstract called Cactus and Paolo Vallorz' standing nude, a throwback to the Art Students League life class...
Neither Easy nor Short. As they wonder where the readers went, most observers conjure up the figure of the commuter. Ivan Veit, business manager of the Times, subscribes to the widely shared view that what the papers lost was "multiple readers"-people who bought two or more papers daily, one for the ride to work and another for the trip home. Newsstand sales, off some 10%, suggest that Veit may be right. Francis M. Flynn, president and publisher of the Daily News, thinks that commuters have rediscovered homegrown substitutes: "I hear that people are reading suburban papers more and liking...
Kindly Pope John then took Adzhubei and his wife Rada on a brief tour of the papal apartments, explained the meaning of his tapestries and paintings. He asked Rada to tell him the names of her children (Nikita, Aleksei and Ivan) because "the names of children acquire a special sound from the lips of their own mothers." John gave Rada a rosary because it reminded him "of the prayer my mother used to recite by the fire when...