Word: moscow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...always liked Wyeth's work, cited Children's Doctor as his particular favorite among the American paintings on exhibition at Moscow. He found he liked Wyeth's gentle, almost courtly manners too, permitted him to spend five full days working at Gettysburg. During those five days the President posed whenever he had time to spare, from 15 minutes to an hour. At Wyeth's request Ike donned his favorite jacket, a straw-colored, nubby silk. He sat unsmiling and as if alone with his thoughts. Previous portraitists, working mostly from photographs, have tended to crystallize...
...modern Tashkent and the redolent, mud-walled courtyards of Samarkand (pop. 170,000), short, moonfaced Uzbeks with golden skin and embroidered skullcaps no longer call the Russians hated koperlar (infidels). The commissars have done their work well. This summer hundreds of tourists, many of them Americans, flying southeast from Moscow in swift TU-IO4 jets that make the 2,500-mile trip to Tashkent in four hours, have been rewarded with satisfying peeks at these ancient cities, set like "green jewels on a withered hand," in a harsh and little-known land (see color pages...
...Philadelphia Orchestra, Ruff has a B.A. and M.A. from Yale) who formed a jazz duo and split their time between lectures and nightclub dates. In Russia, traveling with 30 members of the Yale Russian Chorus on an informal tour, the pair made contact with the young musicians of the Moscow Conservatory, gave an impromptu concert, and were introduced around to Russia's undercover cats...
...progressive jazz and the slightly atonal West Coast styles so popular in 1959. How do the Russians find out? Simply by taping everything they hear over the Voice of America and by smuggling records through Poland. In literally dozens of homes, the U.S. visitors found big tape collections; one Moscow physicist, who plays "a real cool saxophone." had everything from Ella Fitzgerald to Dave Brubeck and Sarah Vaughan. Poorer musicians who cannot tape or smuggle records cut their own homemade disks on discarded X-ray plates. "We saw one," says Mitchell, "on which you could still see somebody...
...Soviet citizen's curiosity about U.S. time payments-and particularly about the fate of defaulters-showed up strongly at the American National Exhibition in Moscow. While publicly deploring U.S. consumers who put themselves in debt, Soviet officials have quietly experimented with installment buying for two years. A trial in Odessa last February was hugely popular, although sloppy bookkeeping ended the venture...