Word: leonid
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Borovitsky Gate, a young man suddenly fired six pistol shots at the third car. The driver and a motorcycle outrider were wounded. Bystanders apparently overpowered the gunman and police hustled him away. Whom was he trying to kill? Possibly, the gunman thought he was aiming at Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev and Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny (Brezhnev and other Soviet leaders were reportedly in the following car). In any event, the Soviets dismissed him as a "mentally disturbed" youth of about 20. It was a convenient label, since a favorite Soviet device for dealing with political dissenters is to lock them...
...long toyed with basic ESP phenomena.* A respected French biologist, who carries out his parapsychological research under the pseudonym "Andrew Robinson" to avoid professional ridicule, recently claimed that his complicated electronic rigs suggest the possibility of communication between men and mice. Even Russia has its psychic expert: Dr. Leonid L. Vasiliev of the University of Leningrad, whose Mysterious Phenomena of the Human Psyche has become a bestseller in the Soviet Union...
...list of economic achievements (1968 income up 7.2%, industrial production up 8.3%). The 1,510-odd delegates were visibly unimpressed. Instead, they complained bitterly about the shoddy quality of Soviet housing and the poor reliability of farm machinery, which plagues farmers with frequent breakdowns. As Kosygin and Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev looked on, Chairman Nikolai Baibakov, of the State Planning Committee, assured the angry delegates that he would take immediate action to correct those deficiencies. Obviously, if the Russians want to upgrade their consumer and industrial goods, they cannot embark on the construction of a multibillion-dollar antimissile network throughout...
...lowered. Most residents of Prague consequently assumed that all was normal. In fact, Czechoslovak's President Ludvik Svoboda and Party Chief Alexander Dubcek, along with three other leaders, had flown hurriedly to the Ukrainian city of Kiev for their fourth summit meeting with Soviet Communist Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev since the Russian invasion. Only after the session ended last week were Czechoslovaks informed that it had been held. That fact, and the manner in which the meeting was convened, constituted bleak proof that Czechoslovakia remained an uneasy prey to Russia's whims...
...Leonid Brezhnev. By invading Czechoslovakia, he showed that the Russian plan for world domination has not been given up for peaceful coexistence; showed De Gaulle that he needs to study Russian history; demonstrated that the purported will of Peter the Great still defines Russian foreign policy; convinced the world that the need for NATO still exists; woke up the U.S. and made most of its citizens grateful for the election of Nixon...