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Died. Alexander Vasilievich Vishnevsky, 74, leading Soviet surgeon, holder of the Stalin Prize (for brilliant work in the treatment of wounds and shock) and the Order of Lenin; in Moscow...
Even before Peter the Great built his famed northern capital astride the River Neva and christened it with his own name, it was an old Russian custom to honor a hero by calling a town after him. With the renaming of Petrograd in honor of Lenin, the Bolsheviks picked up the custom and carried it on with such vigor that a Russian geography now reads like a combination Who's Who, Social Register and Roll of Honor...
...Those who don't fear worries, those who read Stalin with their hearts . . ." Lenin, who started the whole thing, put it very simply: "It should rear Communists...
After a late party, he would frequently sit up most of the night working on some involved problem ("How much sleep do I need? This is like what Mrs. Lenin said about the meat: 'When we are hungry, we cook it five minutes; when we are not hungry, two hours'"). Once, on a date with a coed in the Berkeley hills, he felt the urge to solve a problem in physics, got out of the car to pace up & down, wandered off into the night. On another occasion, emboldened by his own Martinis, Oppenheimer decided to telephone...
...once they are convinced that not within their lifetime, not indeed for generations, is the prophecy of Marx and Lenin to come true, the Russian rulers may negotiate in a very different spirit...