Word: kiev
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Born in the Ukraine's Volyn in 1897, Liberman attended a gymnasium and took a law degree at Kiev University, went on to study engineering in Kharkov. For some 15 years he worked in various factories near by, including six years as planning chief in a large farm machinery plant. After a wartime stint in a Moscow government job, Liberman went back to the Engineering Institute in Kharkov as a teacher and part-time factory consultant, earning his doctorate in economics in 1956 and the title of professor...
Georgi Griner plays Ghenry Ghiggins with a Kiev accent, and The Rain in Spain came out Carl Stole Clara's Corals. Even if something were lost in translation, Maya Prekrasnaya Ledy brought 2,700 first-nighters to their feet in Moscow's Operetta Theater. "A great success," trumpeted Tass. But not everybody could have danced all night. "The Soviets did not go through proper channels," groused CBS, which bought the foreign rights to My Fair Lady from Authors Alan Lerner, 46, and Frederick Loewe, 60, in 1960. The Russians, of course, paid no one a ruble. But Producer...
...days after the assassination I was at a reception at Kiev University. Noticing I was an American, several students came over to offer their condolences. "You shouldn't let these extremists get away with such things," one of them said. "When the an-archists tried to kill Lenin here we had the Red Terror against them. That stopped them. You people should try that...
...Kiev a university student invited me to visit his dormitory. I spent an afternoon talking to him and his three roommates, all journalism students and about 25 years...
...Kiev when Kennedy was shot. I heard the news on the radio two hours after he died. The next day's morning and evening news-papers sold out in a few minutes. Everything was fully reported in the Soviet press (even that Oswald had lived in Russia) and the funeral was on television, relayed by Telstar satellite...