Word: leonide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hardy survivor of a dozen plots and purges, is an Armenian. Tousle-haired Party Secretary Mikhail Suslov, 58, the "hard line" party theoretician, is rated too theoretical; First Deputy Premier Aleksei Kosygin, 58, a veteran economic planner, is thought to lack the stomach for the job. Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev was earlier kicked upstairs...
...Boston, Correspondent Doug Cray was assigned to interview visiting Soviet Scientist Leonid I. Sedov, who had just been interviewed over a Boston TV show and had set off for Brown University in Providence. Correspondent Cray got in touch with Sedov's Russian translator on the program, Harvard's Nicholas DeWitt, arranged for him to come along, and hired a Cadillac ("a sickly marlin blue") to speed off to Providence. Sedov by then was about to emplane for New York. Cray persuaded him to ride instead in the Cadillac "in utter peace and quiet." Sedov produced a couple...
...mountainous Morocco a respected King died, and a politically uncertain new King succeeded him. Morocco's list of state visitors, past, passing and to come, was a small but significant measure of the new stature of Africa in the world's eyes. Russia's President Leonid Brezhnev had just left; Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito would soon be arriving aboard his state yacht; President Kennedy's personal representative, Averell Harriman, flew in from London; U.S. Special Emissary G. Mennen Williams was slowly working his way up from the heart of Africa...
Under F.L.N. pressure, Hassan was persuaded to allow the Communists to ship arms for the Algerian rebels through Morocco. Last month, coinciding with the arrival of the MIGs, Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev flew into Rabat after dodging warning shots from French jet fighters. Brezhnev got not only a lavish welcome but also Hassan's promise to attend this year's May Day parade in Moscow...
...last week the Soviet government seemed ready to give up the fight. Composer Aram (Sabre Dance) Khatchaturian admitted a personal preference for the "modern music'' of Duke Ellington. In Soviet Culture, organ of the Culture Ministry, Bandmaster Leonid Utesov made it almost official: ''Jazz is not a synonym for imperialism, and the saxophone is not a product of colonialism." There is no reason why the Soviet Union should consider jazz decadent and bourgeois, said Utesov. "Socalled Dixieland existed in Odessa prior to New Orleans...