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Word: leningraders (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Asseyev, formerly a professor of philosophy at the University of Leningrad attempted to jump onto the track in the Harvard Square MTA station at 4:30 p.m. Saturday. A man in his company told an MTA starter that Asseyev was about to jump, and a fare collector, Daniel J. Magoon, ran from his booth and stopped Asseyev three to five feet from the edge of the platform, an MTA official said last night...

Author: By Sanford J. Ungar, | Title: Soviet Student Attempts Leap onto MTA Tracks | 3/2/1964 | See Source »

Peter was 23 and an architecture student in Leningrad. He was eager to talk, and so we spent several evenings together in youth cafes or walking along the hundreds of canals that crisscross the city. Words spilled out of him in an excited, headlong flow...

Author: By Adam Hochschild, | Title: Russian Youth Found Idealistic But Angered By Country's Flaws | 2/4/1964 | See Source »

...went because I wanted to. I had seen something I liked there: a better side of life, a cleaner side of people that comes out when you work together out of doors, when you get up at six in the morning to plant crops and biuld houses. Here in Leningrad things are old. There is much culture, much talk. Like Western Europe. But in Siberia we had something exciting, something...

Author: By Adam Hochschild, | Title: Russian Youth Found Idealistic But Angered By Country's Flaws | 2/4/1964 | See Source »

...Burgess' newest novel, a pallid British antique dealer has to go to Leningrad to learn that he has always been a latent homosexual. On top of this, his, sulky American wife turns out to be an incipient lesbian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: To Russia for Luv | 1/24/1964 | See Source »

Quickly swinging into action, students at Patrice Lumumba Friendship University spread the word to other Africans in Leningrad, Kalinin, and as far away as Odessa and Tashkent. The message: We march on the Kremlin. Wearing the traditional red mourning band of Ghana around their heads, the students gathered before the Ghana embassy on a street a mile from Red Square. "No trouble," shouted their leaders as the procession trooped off, but at the end of the street, there was plenty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: We Too Are People | 12/27/1963 | See Source »

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