Word: nikolais
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fedorov's account suggested that the cosmonaut landed inside his space capsule, but according to other sources in Russia, Major Gagarin parachuted out of the capsule before it hit the ground. Space Scientist Nikolai Gurovsky said: "The cosmonaut came down smoothly in a glade near a field. Landing on his feet, without even tumbling, he walked up to the people...
...equals; he and other coaches spent too much time on paper work and not enough time on coaching-which resulted in poor discipline among the players, who conducted themselves in Rome with un-Soviet individualism while the Americans ran a happy, smooth cooperative. Moreover, top Soviet Basketball Boss Nikolai Semashko believed Spandarian's tall tales, and together they had "shelved" resolutions exposing the sad fact that the Russian team was "inadequately prepared physically, tactically, and especially technically." Noted Grigoriev sadly: "The fast break, once our most dreaded weapon, is now used only sporadically, and chiefly against our weakest opponents...
Pilfered Ears. Ukrainian Party Secretary Nikolai Podgorny, member of the ruling Presidium, was next. When he asserted that his region's harvest was "almost on the previous year's level," Khrushchev snorted. And when Podgorny said bad weather cut corn yields, Khrushchev gave him a brutal verbal beating. "I'm certain, Comrade Podgorny, that the figures on corn yield you just cited are only for half the crop. The other half of the corn was stolen, torn up by the roots." "Correct, Nikita Sergeevich," cringed Podgorny. Roared Khrushchev: "So what has the weather to do with...
...airplane accident." ¶Italy's 100 killed when a "new Russian rocket," scheduled to be launched as a part of the anniversary celebrations of the Bolshevik revolution Nov. 7, blew up prematurely on Oct. 21. Killed in the accident along with Nedelin, according to Continentale. were Colonel General Nikolai 0. Pavlovsky, assistant to the army chief of staff, and Professor Dmitry V. Efremov, deputy chairman of the Soviet Atomic Energy Committee...
...genuine fear of nuclear war and no longer argues that only the other side would get hurt. This more considered position seems to be the cold calculation of the Soviet military itself, to judge by an article published in Moscow's monthly International Life by Major General Nikolai Talensky of the Soviet General Staff. Writes Gen eral Talensky...