Word: leningraders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...incongruous interlude, U.N. delegates gathered in their auditorium last week to celebrate the 17th United Nations Day. The program: Tchaikovsky and Beethoven, played by the touring Leningrad Philharmonic. Before the concert, a grim joke made the rounds, to the effect that the Leningrad orchestra had canceled and President Kennedy had sent in the U.S. Marine Band from Guantanamo. In the corridors, there was much self-conscious gallows humor. A diplomat would say, "See you tomorrow - if there is a tomorrow." Or "Uganda will be admitted to the U.N. Thursday-if there is a Thursday...
...demolition of Aeolian Hall), and it clearly provided a test, as Carnegie Hall Managing Director Julius Bloom noted, of "the amount of music the community can absorb." For the coming season at least, both Philharmonic Hall and Carnegie Hall are well booked, and certain orchestras-including the Philadelphia, the Leningrad Philharmonic and the Little Orchestra Society-are scheduled to play in both places...
Pkhaladze-his ghosts fondly called him "Papa"-was so successful that soon he expanded to Leningrad's medical schools. He acquired a chauffeur-driven Volga limousine, dined regularly at Moscow's Aragvi Restaurant, where lavish tips earned him VIP treatment. He even treated himself to a vacation at Carlsbad in Czechoslovakia, where he posed as a movie producer...
Then one of Pkhaladze's students particularly disgraced himself by "debauchery" at Leningrad Pediatrics Institute, got questioned by suspicious officials, and spilled the beans. To the police, the parents of Pkhaladze's clients tearfully justified it, as Komsomolskaya Pravda put it, by "a passionate desire to have their children go to college, and by the poor preparation they received in high school." Last week Papa and five of his ghosts, having flunked a nasty courtroom exam, were enrolled in the pen for terms up to 15 years...
With an almost infinite variety of climate, peoples and living habits, the Soviet Union itself is a vast human laboratory for studying the many varieties of cancer, said Leningrad's Dr. A. V. Chaklin, one of 1,800 Russians who attended the Congress. He has headed expedition teams over a five-year period, covered the Soviet Union's 15 constituent republics and most of its 100 nationalities. Russian researchers simply move into the regular medical offices ("polyclinics) and require every patient, whether he has come in with a broken arm or athlete's foot, to submit...