Word: nikolai
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...chief fear was not the war of "rocket weapons" and other "modern and terrible means" that Russian Premier Nikolai Bulganin threatened against Great Britain and France (TIME, Nov. 12). This was taken to be crude and nasty propaganda. The fear was of a limited war in the Middle East, of the kind Soviet Russia likes: perhaps without any Russian soldiers, but instigated and supplied by the Russians...
...chemistry prize went to a team of a different type. The winners, Sir Cyril Norman Hinselwood of Oxford and Professor Nikolai N. Semenov of the U.S.S.R.'s Academy of Sciences, worked in laboratories more than 1,300 miles apart. But they worked on the same subject, chemical chain reactions (e.g., explosions in gas mixtures), and were friends and correspondents for 25 years. Their discoveries, extremely important for an age that gets most of its energy from exploding gases, could not be disentangled...
Died. Eliena Krylenko Eastman, 61, Polish-born Russian landscape painter, muralist and onetime (1921) secretary to Maxim Litvinoff (then Vice Commissar of Soviet Foreign Affairs), sister of Nikolai Krylenko, onetime Soviet chief prosecutor who was purged in 1938, and wife of oldtime socialist Max (Reflections on the Failure of Socialism) Eastman; of cancer; in Gay Head, Mass...
Meanwhile Radio Moscow reported the presence at Yalta of Premier Nikolai Bulganin and Soviet Security Boss Ivan Serov. Another satellite visitor was Hun garian Communist Erno Gero, the man who recently replaced Tito's archenemy...
...even after a peace settlement. To pacify the businessmen, the Hatoyama government promptly sent Japan's Roving Ambassador Shunichi Matsumoto off; to Russia to seek such assurances. Last week, after letting Matsumoto cool his heels in a hotel room for three days, Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Nikolai Federenko gave the Soviet reply: "Russia is ready to welcome Premier Hatoyama to Moscow for the purpose of signing a pact normalizing relations between the two nations. Russia agrees to postpone discussion of the territorial issue . . ." This made it fairly certain that a deal would go through, that Russia will...