Word: nikolais
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Last week Chile's newly inaugurated President Eduardo Frei, 53, decided to forgive, if not forget. In a brief ceremony at Santiago's La Moneda palace, he accepted the credentials of Ambassador Nikolai Alekseev, thus making Chile the sixth Latin American nation to have diplomatic relations with Moscow.-The U.S. took it with a shrug. "Our ties with Chile are too tight and too deep to be adversely affected," said an embassy spokesman in Santiago. Behind the move is Frei's frankly expressed desire to find new trade markets for Chilean exports, particularly copper. And besides...
Aleksandr M. Prochorov and Nikolai G. Basov, who independently developed a somewhat similar maser at Moscow's Lebedev Institute of Physics...
...command of ideology had seen him through Stalin and Khrushchev and firmly into the new era. But Mikoyan may be too old and Suslov too frail (he suffers from a chronic kidney ailment) to rate much of a chance among the hustlers in the Soviet Union today. Not so Nikolai Podgorny, 61, a hog-healthy Ukrainian protege of Khrushchev's who managed many of his most delicate foreign and agricultural projects, and Dmitry Polyansky, at 46 the "baby" of the Presidium but one of its canniest opportunists...
...Bertolt Brecht (German 160) Hieronymus Bosch (Fine Arts 156) Miguel Cervantes (Spanish 124) Geoffrey Chaucer (English 115) Samuel Coleridge (English 257) Dant'e Alighieri (Italian 120) Charles Dickens (English 259a) Fyodor Dostoevsky (Slavic 155) Jonathan Edwards (English 276) T.S. Eliot (English 267) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German 120) Nikolai Gogol (Slavic 154) Henrik Ibsen (Scandinavian 1) Immanuel Kant (Philosophy 130) John Keats (English 256) Lucretius (Latin 107a) Thomas Mann (German 285) Michelangelo Buonarroti (Fine Arts 257) John Milton (English 131) Freidrich Nietzsche (Philosophy 235) Pindar (Philosophy 278b) Plato (Classical Philology 236b, Philosophy 102) Aleksander Pushkin (Slavic 152) H.H. Richardson (Fine...
...Dating from Czarist times, the names reflect that Russian gallows humor that Novelist Nikolai Gogol defined as "laughter seen by the world and tears unseen...