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...matter of life and death to this country. It is to the second industrial revolution what the harnessing of power was to the first. Because we were the first in adopting new techniques 150 years ago, we have benefited ever since." Born of Russian-Jewish parents in Kiev, Sir Leon studied at London University, formed his own company in 1935, and since the war has headed the revamped firm of Elliott-Automation Ltd., which, outside the U.S., is the largest computer manufacturer in the world...
...recruit easily passed his first test: he asked his sister to put him in contact with a local underground group, then turned in its leaders. Soon afterward, Stashinsky was enrolled in a spy school at Kiev. Assigned to East Berlin, Stashinsky was bored with his tasks; he passed information to and from other Soviet couriers, and once he was ordered to copy down the license plate numbers of Allied military vehicles. One of Stashinsky's few excitements was a girl he met in an East Berlin dance hall, Inge Pohl, with whom he fell in love. Inge...
Four Pounds, Two Titles. Despite all this social activity, not to mention Rigoletto at the Bolshoi and a Russian circus, Salinger managed to squeeze in a little duty. He toured the Izvestia and Pravda plants, talked with newsmen in Moscow, Leningrad and Kiev-all off the record...
Khrushchev himself continued his campaign against the "personality cult" when at a Kiev meeting his agricultural policies were openly criticized by an agronomist and he replied breezily that orders must not be obeyed unthinkingly: "I can be mistaken." But there were signs that the anti-Stalinist drive was having dangerous side effects. Central Committee Secretary Leonid Ilyichev took pains to warn a convention of 2,700 party propagandists that anti-Stalinism must not lead to questioning the Marxist-Leninist system itself or to opposing the right kind of leadership...
Archipenko's father was a mildly successful inventor in the Russian city of Kiev, and invention has held a fascination for Archipenko all his life. While the father thought of an invention as a mechanical problem, the son saw it also as an esthetic one, an assemblage of forms. By the time he moved to Paris at the age of 21, young Archipenko was not only a trained engineer but an accomplished sculptor as well...