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...clothing-factory manager joined in. "We never know what fabrics we are going to receive tomorrow or the day after. This fall they sent us some light stuff suitable for topcoats. But the factory was already making winter overcoats with fur collars. Nichevo! We have to attach black fur collars to light topcoats. And the same thing happens with the collars as with the cloth. We use whatever they send us. We sew cheap fur onto an expensive overcoat." Result: there are 342 state "ateliers" in Moscow alone-not to mention myriads of moonlighting private "tailors" employing Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Appalling Apollos | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...large unit, and we jump regularly from all types of aircraft . . . Leaping . . . with a full fieldpack, a rifle, extra equipment plus a large, 75-lb. general-purpose container, makes the stoic little Russian's feat appear rather tame by comparison. But . . . this big tough Russian murmuring "Eto Nichevo," as he [disen tangled himself from] his warning buzzers and portable political tutors after landing "near the white chalk cross," is what prompted me to write . . . All my friends here in Combat Control would like to extend a formal invitation to the U.S.S.R. parachute-jumping team to a spot jumping contest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 13, 1954 | 9/13/1954 | See Source »

...That Russian was playing on his chute like an organist," marveled a pop-eyed observer at the Second International Parachute Jumping Championships of Saint-Yan last week. "Eto Nichevo," shrugged the jumper. "It was nothing. Everyone on my team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Jumping Russians | 8/16/1954 | See Source »

...General Assembly. Andrei Vishinsky opposed the U.S. plan for widening the powers of the Assembly, but he was less vitriolic than usual. Jacob Malik, the Relentless Rudolph of last month's Security Council sessions, softened to the point of telling one reporter to remember the Russian word nichevo. "It means," explained Malik, " 'don't worry, things will turn out all right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: The Nichevo Line | 10/2/1950 | See Source »

...benefit, the Western powers had to see what they could do by themselves. This week, the conference announced agreement on "recommendations" to its governments. The gist: convoke a constituent assembly to set up a democratic Western German government. If the Russians want to bring their zone in, fine-otherwise nichevo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Sign Up Here | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

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