Word: leningraders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their part, find gambling irresistible. For a chance at a prize list worth a mere $200,000, Hungarians last year bought 326 million lottery tickets at an average 20? a ticket. Last week winners of the Czech Artists Trade Union lottery got free trips to the Hermitage in Leningrad and the Louvre in Paris. One Yugoslav physical culture group's lottery is offering hard-to-get Peugeots and trips to the Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France, plus U.S.-made exercise equipment as consolation prizes. And homeward-bound Yugoslav workers stop by sidewalk Daj-Dam ("You give...
...will face when the new Tolyati Fiat plant in the Middle Volga region is completed in 1969. Right now there are only about 1,000,000 cars in Russia, and only 75,000 in Moscow, a city of 6,500,000 people. Moscow has only eight filling stations and Leningrad just three. Yet the Fiat plant, for which the Italians are providing equipment and technical advice, will produce some 600,000 cars a year by the early 1970s-more than triple the present Soviet output. Mechanics of the Soviet Union, multiply...
...George C. Scott, E. G. Marshall and Geraldine Chaplin. Not least of the season's curiosities: Soviet Playwright Aleksie Arbuzov's The Promise, the first postwar Russian work to play Broadway. Directed by Britain's Frank Hauser, it is a romance about life and love in Leningrad...
...White Nights." For most tourists, Leningrad, the old czarist capital of St. Petersburg and cradle of the Revolution, with its superb setting on the Neva River, is the handsomest city in the Soviet Union. Number one draw is the Hermitage Museum, which contains a dazzling art collection of nearly 3,000,000 works that includes a whole room of Rembrandts, and the world's finest assemblage of Gauguins, Matisses and early Picassos. Two other great sights: the Peter and Paul Fortress housing the tombs of all the Romanovs from Peter the Great to Alexander III (except Peter...
...unhurried tourist, there are trips by steamer, excursion boat or hydrofoil on the Volga and Don rivers from Kazan to Volgograd to Rostovon-Don, along the Dnieper from Kiev to Kherson, up the Neva from Leningrad to Petrodvorets. For the most part, tourists report that the equipment is modern and the service excellent. Says Pomona, Calif., Attorney Graham Talbott, who took his wife on a six-day cruise down the Danube from Vienna to Yalta: "The only annoying aspect was a Big Brother speaker over your bed that never quit issuing orders from the time it woke...