Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME is also able to count on the first-hand experiences of its writers and correspondents to fill in gaps in the Russian story. Of the five writers who put together last week's section, DEATH IN THE KREMLIN, one was a war correspondent on the Russian front during World War II. Another, as head of the United Press bureau at the U.N., covered the doings of Vishinsky, Molotov, Malik, Gromyko & Co., and their satellite supporters. In addition, TIME'S bureau chiefs in all the world capitals regularly report on the parts of the story that filter into...
...since only a wax dummy could never politically offend either side. Obviously, Russia will no more endorse a national from the Western sphere of influence than the West will approve any citizen of a satellite country. This climinates Canada's Pearson, the Philippines' Romulo, and Poland's Skrzeszewski. The Kremlin has scored in Asia by announcing its lack of opposition to either Mme. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit or Sir Benegal...
...recent years, his health was poor, but he continued to write music. He was no longer the daring musical revolutionary, but his "realistic" Seventh Symphony (first performed last month) and his 1951 oratorio, On Guard for Peace, put him firmly back in the graces of the Kremlin. Last week, as Joseph Stalin lay unconscious, cerebral hemorrhage brought death to Sergei Prokofiev at 61. In a Moscow all but preoccupied with the death of the dictator, thousands filed into Composers Hall, where his body lay in state, to pay a tribute to the Soviet Union's finest composer...
...failing heart and directed dozens of laboratory tests. From the first, the results were disquieting, e.g., the number of white cells in the blood was mounting rapidly, suggesting inflammation in the lungs. On the third day, the electrocardiogram showed fresh damage to the heart muscle. But the sleepless Kremlin physicians fought on, meeting crisis after crisis in breathing and heart action...
Died. Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, 73, history's most successful tyrant, successor to Vladimir Ilich Lenin as Premier of the U.S.S.R.; of a cerebral hemorrhage, after 29 years in power; in Moscow (see DEATH IN THE KREMLIN...