Word: ludmilla
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crisp Saturday morning, and exercise instructor Ludmilla Fedina is barking orders like a drill sergeant. "Don't be lazy. You have five more seconds," she cries to Luba Yeremeeva, 27, a machine-tool worker who is pumping away on a Soviet-made stationary bike. Galina Usochina, 47, a factory engineer, turns red as borscht as she works out on a rowing machine. And retiree Zinaida Kolmakova flashes a gold-toothed grin while she demonstrates how, at 61, she can do a dozen chin-ups. Business is brisk at the Krylatskoya Physical Fitness Clinic in west Moscow...
Down the hall, Dr. Irina Arkhangelskaya, who has lost 92 lbs. in the past year and now weighs in at 170, hands a list of foods, with their calorie content, to Ludmilla Makarova, a new client who needs help planning a diet. Makarova, who works in a mirror factory, grimaces as she notes that the suggested daily menu forbids noodles, sausage and sweets. "And no pickles," Arkhangelskaya cautions. "They are high in salt...
...worked at the French National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies in Rouen, northwest of Paris. She, in turn, allegedly had an affair with her French boss, Pierre Verdier, and brought him into the conspiracy. Verdier later visited Moscow, where he fell in love with a woman named Ludmilla Varygin. The Soviets are said to have agreed to allow Varygin to emigrate to France to marry Verdier, but only if he would provide them with important technical information. That was too much for Manole, the jilted Rumanian, who blew the whistle on the spy ring by writing to Premier Jacques...
Fellow Britons like Diane Towler and Bernard Ford helped pioneer the ice- dancing form during the '60s. "Because they have a long history of ballroom dancing," says Button, "the British have been the most creative of ice dancers. It strikes a sensitive nerve in them." Soviets like Ludmilla Pakhomova and Aleksandr Gorshkov have also left their imprint on the form, but Torvill and Dean may be the first to reach the superstar status of such figure-skating soloists as Dorothy Hamill and Peggy Fleming. "All new skaters will in some way look like Torvill and Dean," says Button. "They...
...foreign affairs, although his position was much weakened by Brezhnev's expanded authority in the field. Kosygin had risen and survived by pursuing a technocrat's career. Dry even by Soviet standards, free of personal foibles or idiosyncrasies, he was so ascetic that in New York, his daughter Ludmilla, armed with a long shopping list of her own, could not think of anything to buy that her father would want or need...