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...even if Washington expands the war. By lending a hand to Hanoi, Moscow would win new prestige while blunting Peking's influence. The makeup of Kosygin's contingent was probably the best clue as to what the Russians had on their minds. On the list were Marshal Konstantin Vershinin, Deputy Defense Minister and commander of the Soviet air force, and Colonel General Georgy Sidorovich, No. 2 man in Moscow's military aid program. The Russians were expected to offer military hardware that Peking cannot match -quite possibly SA-2-type ground-to-air missiles and supersonic...
...rumors were right. Forty-eight hours after Volovchenko, 46, made his Pravda debut, he was named Russia's farm boss, succeeding the hapless Konstantin Pysin, who had held the job for less than a year. During his brief tenure, Pysin tried his best to coax more production from the collectivized peasantry. He even squeezed in a month-long tour of U.S. farm lands last September, hoping to pick up a few pointers. Alas, nothing seemed to help. The Soviet grain harvest last year was 16 million tons less than the quota under the seven-year plan, and Nikita Khrushchev...
...contrast to Khrushchev's disappointing trip, a delegation of Russian agricultural experts touring the burgeoning U.S. countryside were having the time of their lives-sort of. The group, headed by Agriculture Minister Konstantin Pysin, had traveled from coast to coast during the past month, last week wound up in California's fabled San Joaquin Valley. The visitors ogled Fred DeBenedetti's mechanical tree shaker that tumbled walnuts to the ground, stared while other mechanized arms swept up the piles of nuts. When William Machado, a bean farmer, said that he had suffered no loss...
First applauded by critics for his Konstantin in the Old Vic's 1960 production of The Seagull, he later spread his reputation in a TV role as an army private who spoils a mission by breaking silence with the cry that he is having a vision...
...footpath through the woods or across the open fields from the suburban railroad station. A slow procession wound through the house to view the body: students, workers, peasants, elderly men and women of Pasternak's own generation. There were even some writers who braved official displeasure: Novelist Konstantin Paustovsky, Children's Author Kornei Chukovsky and, through his wife, Ilya Ehrenburg. Sviatoslav Richter, Russia's finest pianist, played slow dirges and the Chopin melodies that Pasternak had loved...