Word: marshak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rank-conscious hierarchy of Soviet intellectual life, retirement is virtually unknown, and many important institutes and observatories are run by superannuated fuddy-duddies. The University of Rochester's R. E. Marshak was amazed "at how young Russian physicists did not hesitate to call to task distinguished academicians if points of difference arose," but in many fields it is the young who are apt to make the decisive leaps...
Pulled Its Weight. Marc Rojtman came to the U.S. in 1938 to establish a branch of the family-owned Marshak Diesel Locomotive Co. near Paris. Before he could get started, World War II broke out, and Rojtman became a U.S. citizen, served with Army Intelligence for 30 months. After the Germans destroyed the Marshak works in their retreat, Rojtman decided to go into the tractor business on his own. "All a locomotive is is a tractor," says he, "and I have been in the locomotive business all my life...
Last week 59-year-old Composer Prokofiev announced a new work for children: an oratorio called Guarding Peace, for children's voices, mixed chorus, soloists and orchestra, with text by Children's Poet Samuel Marshak. In the new work, his latter-day Peter comes across a new species of wolf: "The sinister, evil voices of the warmongers and Wall Street merchants on their way to Korea, carrying hundreds of thousands of death-dealing bombs." Guarding's enthusiastic conclusion : "The children's best friend and protector lives in the Kremlin...