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...Stoilov, a friend whose qualifications include working as a magician's assistant at home in Bulgaria, as a circus technician in Czechoslovakia and as a dance-bar proprietor in Vienna. Following a night's rest in Stoilov's hometown of Sandanska, the Russian politician traveled to the village of Melnik to accept a painting from a local artist who shares Zhirinovsky's conviction that Bulgaria should expand its territory by annexing the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia. To make sure the message got across, he restated this theory for a Sofia newspaper...
Shot-Putter Lisovskaya, a prime example of the Soviet approach, began her programmed life at a "sports-oriented" school in her native Tashkent at age seven. She was spotted as a potential champion at 14. Coach Faina Melnik saw her during a scouting trip and persuaded her to move to Moscow as soon as she finished high school. A discus thrower at the time, she tried the shot at Melnik's suggestion and soon switched, a daring decision for an athlete already in her late teens. Within four years, helped by careful coaching and a training regimen...
...Easy. Oldham did not do it alone. Army Tackle Bill Melnik got so exasperated at seeing Navy's Battleship Tackle Bob Reifsnyder (6 ft. 2 in., 228 Ibs.) playing in the Army's backfield that he put Bob out of the game. It was easy. He threw punches until Bob punched back. Both were banished...
...List's opponent, General Melnik, well knows that such barriers, even when snow clogs the high mountain passes, are not enough to save the Caucasus. Observed Red Star; "No natural obstacle can prevent enemy advances unless it is backed by fire power and men." Melnik, commander of the Red Army's southernmost wing, is more a flat-country fighter than a mountaineer (TIME, Oct. 12), but he is also an expert guerrilla tactician...
After Rostov, key to the northern Caucasus fell July 27, Melnik's forces retreated steadily for seven weeks. Then for four weeks the Germans had to fight for every foot they gained. This week the Germans were trying to advance in two directions through the Caucasus. One force, striking toward Grozny and the Caspian, had been stalled for the past two months on the Terek River, which German broadcasts described as "the accursed stream where so much German blood has already been shed." Another spearhead had moved from captured Novorossiisk toward the great oil port of Batum...