Word: kharkov
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crater. The Russians themselves do not claim to know precisely where the Lunik landed. Astronomers from the Ukraine's Kharkov Observatory, who watched and photographed the moon at the moment of impact from a high-flying airplane, think they saw 'a light effect" at the right instant. U.S. astronomers doubt it. Moon Expert Gerard Kuiper of the University of Chicago thinks that no flash of impact would have been visible against the moon's sunlit surface. He questions a Hungarian report of seeing a long-lasting dust cloud on the moon. Since the moon has virtually...
...friend of Campbell's, asked the Agriculture Department to put them under Tom Campbell's wing. Campbell assured the Russians that they could achieve the same yield by adopting U.S. methods, clinched his argument by revealing that the winter wheat he is growing is actually Russian Kharkov wheat, which he brought back to Montana with him when he returned from Russia...
Last week Khrushchev carried his political housewifery into the army. The Red army newspaper published word that* Colonel General F. I. Golikov, 57, a World War II commander (Stalingrad, Kharkov) who served most recently as chief of Moscow's Armored Forces Academy, had been named the army's chief ) political commissar. Golikov replaced Colonel General Alexei Zheltov, a political general who held the post when Marshal Zhukov was dismissed as army chief last summer on charges of interfering with the ideological training of officers. (Zheltov is remembered as the Soviet deputy high commissioner in occupied Austria who remarked...
...globetrotting, Australian-born newspaperman, "Geof" Blunden has written ten previous TIME cover stories on Communist leaders in the past seven years. During World War II he was a war correspondent in Russia (1942-43), covering the battle of Stalingrad and the capture of Kharkov. He is also the author of two novels about Russia (A Room on the Route, The Time of the Assassins), as well as a recently published satire on the second Geneva Conference (The Looking-Glass Conference). For the product of his carefully acquired knowledge, plus that of a host of other students of the Russian scene...
...After the war began, the nervousness and hysteria which Stalin demonstrated, interfering with actual military operations, caused our army serious damage . . . When there developed an exceptionally serious situation for our army in 1942 in the Kharkov region ... I telephoned Vasilevsky [Chief of Staff] and begged him: 'Alexander Mikhailovich, take a map and show Comrade Stalin the situation which has developed . . .' We should note that Stalin planned operations on a globe. Yes, comrades, he used to take the globe and trace the front on it ... [But] Stalin didn't want to hear any more arguments on the matter...