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...Justice William O. Douglas, he became the first man on TV not to win $100,000. His consolation: $50,000. Big Surprise may improve its low audience rating with the next contestant, sprightly Kyra Shirk, a housewife from York, Pa. who spent the war years as a citizen of Leningrad and a second lieutenant in the Red army. Her subject: wars and weapons...
This is the area where Frye, after a few days in Leningrad and Moscow, spent most of his time in the U.S.S.R. He visited the universities of Samarkand, Uzbekistan, and Tashkent, even attending classes in the latter institution. But most of the time he traveled just as a tourist, seeing people at their jobs and talking to them whenever possible. Traveling alone, without guide or interpreter, the Russian-speaking scholar journeyed with as much freedom as he would have had in the United States...
...Frye certainly bought a long string of tickets during his trip. Arriving in Helsinki by plane on August 24, just after the close of Summer School in Cambridge, he proceeded from there to Leningrad, where he gave a talk on Middle Eastern history at the Hermitage Museum. From there he went to Moscow, where he was interviewed on the radio in Russian and Persian, and then to Uralsk, in the Urals. His next stop was Aktyubinski in Kazakistan, whence he went to Dzhuzali near the northeast tip of the Aral...
...Kremlin, for all the talk of a "Geneva spirit," was in no yielding mood, and the historic meeting almost broke up with no agreements at all. Midway through the talks, both sides conceded that they were getting nowhere. One morning, in his special train in Moscow's Leningrad station, Der Alte slammed his fist down onto a table and snapped to his assembled lieutenants: "Order the planes from Hamburg. Let's get out of this place...
...Russian museums of modern art were stocked by Czarist merchants who wintered on the Cóte d'Azur in the balmy days before World War I and were among the first to patronize school-of-Paris art. Leningrad's Hermitage Museum and Moscow's Pushkin Museum between them remain the world's greatest repository of early Matisse paintings...