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Because no Russian had showed up at the get-together, the Peruvian Ambassador wrote the Soviets' charge d'affaires, Nikolai Belokhvostikov, inviting him to join in. A week passed without an answer. Then Benavides' secretary phoned the Soviet embassy; he explained what was planned, suggested that the letter must have gone astray, and added that he was sure that Belokhvostikov would want his name on the box. "It is not customary," snapped the Russian as he hung...
...Seattle as an "esthetic dustbin," but for two years during the war, he had musicians and sellout audiences on the edges of their seats (he sometimes stopped the orchestra in the middle of a movement to lecture the audience on its manners). Such other conductors as Basil Cameron and Nikolai Sokoloff had left Seattle shaking their heads and wringing their hands. Halfempty houses, rickety budgets, constant wrangling of the socialite directors or the insubordination among the musicians had made life unbearable. The last conductor to get "the Seattle treatment," ruddy-faced Carl Bricken, 49, survived a petition signed...
...confused with former Soviet Ambassador to the U.S. Nikolai V. Novikov. † Having restored the use of titles in all the branches of government service, Moscow reverted to another good old czarist custom last week by instituting "special forms of clothing," rank insignia and personal titles for officers of financial and banking institutions. Top rank: General State Counselor of Financial Service...
...James Watt, but by Ivan Polzunov. Thomas Edison gets false credit for the light bulb; Alexander Lodygin thought it up first. The first airplane was not constructed by Wilbur and Orville Wright, but by a Russian naval officer, Alexander Mozhaisky. The first jet plane was designed by Nikolai Kibalchich, a terrorist, while he awaited execution, in 1881, for his part in the assassination of Czar Alexander II. It was Vyacheslav Manassein who discovered penicillin, 75 years ahead of Britain's Alexander Fleming, and Leonid Vasilievich Sobolev who discovered insulin, 21 years ahead of Canada's Frederick Banting...
...Moscow, Marshal Nikolai A. Bulganin issued the Order of the Day for May Day. Said he: "The entire personnel of our armed forces are obliged steadfastly to perfect their military knowledge, to master new military technique, to increase their vigilance . . ." For emphasis, the Red Army displayed new, long-range, B-29-type bombers in larger numbers than Moscow had ever seen before...