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...Vladimir Lenin read the first issue from cover to cover. On attaining the White House, John F. Kennedy drew from the magazine's roster of contributors to help staff his Administration all the way up to Cabinet level. In the major councils of world government, it is studied as if it were the official voice of the U.S. Department of State. It is not. But in 40 years, an anniversary reached this week, Foreign Affairs quarterly has grown to be an accurate and authoritative observer of world events and, in its quiet way, one of the most influential periodicals...
...Lenin Aloft. U.S. television networks asked to plug in on the space screenings via Telstar, but the Russians refused. At a once-removed distance, however, Soviet public relations men were shelling out a variety of corn that would have made a second-rate Hollywood puff merchant blush. Around the world, Soviet embassy officials peddled prepared picture layouts that showed the two cosmonauts with their families, and at play, wearing brief swimming trunks at a Russian beach resort. There were pictures of the two lolling on a grassy slope, riding a pedal boat, and even one of Nikolayev sniffing poppies. Handouts...
Seeking to demonstrate Cuba's "socialist superiority," Castro's team had been in training for six months. Twice-weekly lectures on Marx and Lenin were supposed to put everybody in the right frame of mind. Said Castro himself, in a final pep talk: Cuba's athletes were going to Jamaica "not as athletes, but soldiers fighting the cause of socialism. There will be people who will try to kidnap you." As protection, he sent 20 secret-service men to guard his warriors; even the bat boy on Cuba's baseball team...
...drawings, all done with a swinging and resonant network of strokes, were portraits of some of the chief figures of Russia's pre-Revolution Parnassus-Sergei Rachmaninoff, Feodor Chaliapin, Alexander Pushkin, Leo Tolstoy-all close friends of the artist. There was a startling psychological study of Lenin, done in 1921, which captures his aggressive intelligence. From Pasternak's later period in Berlin there was a sketch of a dark-haired, mustachioed Albert Einstein playing the violin. Most of the 82 charcoal, pastel, chalk and red pencil drawings in the show demonstrated Pasternak's talent for capturing...
...return to Russia, could not get in, went to England instead. He spent the war years as a sick and half-forgotten man, still hoping to go back to Russia, and died in Oxford in 1945 at the age of 83. On his easel was an unfinished portrait of Lenin, which he had been trying to do from memory...