Word: kiev
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...KIEV, Ukraine, Feb. 26--British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev ended talks today in an atmosphere of bitter chill. The British visitor warned Khrushchev of grave danger if anyone interferes with the Western powers' rights in Berlin...
Kistiakowsky, who teaches Chemistry 60, was born at Kiev in Russia 58 years ago. He is also a member of President Eisenhower's Science Advisory Committee...
...ticket seekers. Budapest-born Eugene Ormandy and his 104 players were cheered inside the packed hall for more than 15 minutes ("Never in my life have I heard such strings," glowed a Rumanian conductor), escaped outside only after police charged the cheering mobs in the streets. In Kiev, the reception was even bigger. Decked with Ukrainian flowers, the orchestra swept on to Moscow for five more concerts...
...After his Act II aria, Cortigiani "oil razza, reported the New York Times's Howard Taubman, the Russians stopped the show with a spontaneous outburst. At the final curtain, they gave him a standing ovation. Warren is scheduled to appear in recitals in Leningrad, to do Rigoletto in Kiev, and to sing lago in Otello in Riga. He has already left a lasting memento of his visit: the Russians have copied the sheet music of one of his most popular recital numbers: Colorado Trail...
...gloves, he appeared, tossing his shoulder-length blond hair, before an audience of 3,000, who greeted him with "thunderous applause such as had not been heard in Russia for over a century." The pianist who has been evoking that sort of reception for a month from Riga to Kiev is a far cry from the saturnine dandy with the "Florentine profile." Van Cliburn is a gangling (6 ft. 4 in., 165 Ibs.), snub-nosed, mop-haired boy out of Kilgore, as Texan as pecan pie. Instead of medals, he carried a well-thumbed Bible; instead of doeskin gloves...