Word: kiev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Allegro. He is born on Musikalnyi Peruelok - Music Street - in Kiev. His uncle is a music critic, his mother a brilliant amateur pianist. At the age of ten he memorizes the piano scores of Tannhäuser, Lohengrin, Parsifal. Clearly, little Vladimir is a musical prodigy...
...many of the 6,000 comrades who swarmed into Moscow last week for the 23rd Communist Party Congress, getting there was hardly fun. The Rumanian delegation, led by Nicolae Ceausescu (TIME cover, March 18), was forced to land in Kiev; Czech Party Boss Antonin Novotny had to wait 16 hours in Leningrad for the Moscow fog to lift. Once they arrived, the delegates wandered the city like conventioners anywhere, clicking pictures of the Spassky Gate, shopping at GUM, or lining up to peek at Lenin, whose tomb was banked in flowers and bedecked with signs reading "Glory to Communism." Others...
...only team that ever lost to the Russians," groused U.S. Track Coach Brutus Hamilton. He was bemoaning the fact that the U.S. men's team, which has whipped the Soviets in dual track meets for six years in a row, was tipped over by the Russians, in Kiev last week...
Post-meet analysis naturally produced a variety of explanations for the poor showing. Many American coaches criticized the Amateur Athletic Union for allowing members of the U.S. team to compete in track meets throughout Europe before going on to Kiev. Along the way, Olympic 5,000-meter Champion Bob Schul caught a cold that so weakened him that he lost to 35-year-old Pyotr Bolotnikov. Another outstanding U.S. distance runner, 19-year-old Gerry Lingren, got tonsilitis and finished third in the 10,000-meter race...
...chief Soviet track coach, Gavriil Korobkov, had an explanation, too. The Americans, he said were overconfident after the decisive U.S. victory in the 1964 dual meet and the poor Soviet performances in the Tokyo Olympics that followed. There was something to that. In Kiev, the U.S. men's sprint relay team had practiced passing the baton for only two hours prior to the meet. Not surprisingly, it bobbled an exchange in the race and was disqualified...