Word: leonids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said that members are being asked to write letters to Premier Khrushchev, Leonid I. Brezhnev, Chairman of the Presidium, and Anatoliy F. Dobrynin, Ambassador to the United States. The letter-writing campaign has been undertaken because Soviet law provides that public opinion be taken into consideration in clemency appeals...
...hungry. The first TIME cover story about a Russian, on July 14, 1924, dealt with Aleksei Rykov, President of the Soviet People's Commissars, who had just issued one of those typical, promissory reports filled with soaring but questionable statistics. This week's cover article on Leonid Brezhnev, President of the Soviet Union, is TIME'S 70th on a Russian subject. It was written by Michael Demarest, edited by Edward Hughes, and reported from many quarters, but principally by our Moscow bureau chief, Israel Shenker. Despite great changes in Russia, the story has remained essentially the same...
...have a far greater impact on the economy in Russia than in most Western nations-have clearly collapsed the Communists' hopes of overtaking the U.S. in the foreseeable future. This is a galling personal defeat for both Khrushchev and his heir apparent, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, a Ukrainian who has been his protege during the long, hard-fought battle to raise Russian living standards. Since 1960, burly, bushy-browed Brezhnev, 57, has been Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet and Russia's titular head of state...
...That's quite a name you've got there," Bolshoi Ballet Master Leonid Lavrovsky told the young ballerina. "If you turn out to be a good dancer you can keep it." The dancer's name was Natalia Bessmertnova, and since in Russian that means Natalie the Immortal, its owner seemed destined to carry it awkwardly-like a steamer trunk with fancy labels. Last week, with barely two months as a Bolshoi soloist behind her, Bessmertnova was established in Moscow's excited ballet world as decidedly bessmertnova-even more so, said her teachers, than the immortal Ulanova...
VICTOR BORGE AT CARNEGIE HALL (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Accompanying the pianistic capers of Victor Borge are Tenor Sergio Franchi and Pianist Leonid Hambro...