Word: leningrader
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...fighter on the Franco side in the Spanish Civil War, commanding a detachment of other Portuguese volunteers. A few years later, the Portuguese high command, recognizing his potential, sent him to Nazi Germany for training with the then invincible Wehrmacht. From the German side he watched the siege of Leningrad...
...perfectly all right," protested Ted. Later, after a four-hour talk with Premier Leonid Brezhnev, Kennedy, with Wife Joan, Daughter Kara, 14, and Son Teddy Jr., 12, went out to meet the people, American style, at a wedding party in a Moscow restaurant and at a Leningrad factory, where Teddy Jr. was toasted. Said Joan: "It's just like being in Fitchburg, Mass., during the last week of the campaign...
...most famous allegorical cycles in all 15th century tapestry, here exhibited together for the first time: the Lady with the Unicorn series from the Cluny Museum in Paris and the Hunt of the Unicorn from the Cloisters in New York. Drawn from other collections as far apart as Leningrad, Brussels and Boston, there are, in all, 97 tapestries on view. These thick, fragile, faded mats of intricately worked wool are among the supreme artifacts of the late medieval world, and they exhale a richness which has vanished from our own culture...
...Kirov, while Galena was demoted from soloist to the corps de ballet. Since then, Panov has been continually harassed. His phone has been cut off, he can receive no mail from abroad, and he has been roughed up by the secret police. Now confined to the city of Leningrad, the Panovs said last week that they had gone on a hunger strike "to the end." In New York, an emergency committee, including Mike Nichols, Beverly Sills, Joanne Woodward and Hal Prince, has set out to use concern over the Panovs' fate to influence the Russians to release them...
Born in St. Petersburg in 1906, Leontief studied at the University of Leningrad before his family fled Communism. He earned a doctorate in economics at the University of Berlin, and in 1931 joined the faculty at Harvard. Among his students in 1935 was Paul Samuelson, the M.I.T. professor who won the second Nobel economics prize in 1970. Besides Leontief and Samuelson, Harvard's Simon Kuznets-also a Russian émigré-won the award in 1971, and Harvard's Kenneth J. Arrow shared it in 1972. Cracked Leontief: "Do you think there should be an antitrust investigation...