Word: kiev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...arrival in Kiev, capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Rademaekers was greeted in French by an Intourist guide. Although he speaks German, Hungarian, and some Italian and Spanish, Rademaekers has no facility in French. He asked the guide if she spoke English or any of the other languages. "No," she informed him coldly. "You are French." The correspondent produced his passport and tried to explain why the visa came from Paris, not New York. But since the guide could speak no English and he no French, the conversation ended with a surly driver delivering the "Frantsuzsky tourist" downtown...
Ultimately, Rademaekers tried to get everything straight with an Intourist official. "You are French," he was told, "because our Intourist office in Kiev said that a French tourist with your name is arriving here. That is why you are French...
...will not do that. They will say, 'What happened to the French tourist sent to you from Kiev? And where did you pick up that American?' You must remain French...
...Soviet housewife in Kiev, blessed with a private bathroom, discovered one morning that the toilet was clogged. She immediately informed the janitor, who told her that it was necessary to apply to the apartment house "block committee." A member of the committee instructed her to fill out a form and take it to the area repair center for her district. etting this far consumed most of one day. Early the next day, the housewife appeared at the repair center. There she had to wait in line for two hours before she reached the comrade who allocated plumbers for her district...
Irked by complaints that previous nets had not screened out all contestants of doubtful femaleness, the I.A.A.F. ordered chromosome tests for European Cup competitors at Kiev. Ewa, co-holder of the women's 100-meter world record (11.1 sec.), saw no need to duck the test and readily submitted to having a few cells scraped from inside her cheek for chromosome analysis. On the basis of the microscope's evidence, three Russian and three Hungarian doctors gave the fatal verdict: Ewa is not a woman because she has "one chromo some too many...