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...tale to tell that flashed back to 1932. He had talked at a Russian scientific meeting about a paper by an English astronomer and a German physicist who suggested that the energy radiated by the sun and other stars was caused by reactions between atomic nuclei. A nonscientist, Nikolai Bukharin, a top Communist official in the post-Lenin era, approached Gamow. He asked Gamow if nuclear reactions like those of the sun could be created on earth and put to some use. Bukharin even offered to turn over the Leningrad electrical works to Gamow for a few hours every night...
JTNANIMOUSLY elected Premier of Russia last week, replacing Georgy Malenkov: Old Bolshevik Nikolai Alexandrovich Bulganin...
...called him to Moscow. He knew nothing about business management, yet he ran one of the largest electrical plants in the Soviet Union; he knew next to nothing about banking but became head of the GOSBANK, the Soviet Federal Reserve. In the '30s at Stalin's order. Nikolai Bulganin. rising executive, was elected chairman of the Moscow Soviet-for six years he was in effect mayor of Moscow (his successor:Nikita Khrushchev). Bulganin traveled abroad, bringing back such improvements as a fleet of trolley buses, a manual of French traffic 20 signals and an order for natty white...
...When Nikolai Bulganin, the Soviet Union's new prime minister, addressed the Supreme Soviet this week, his words echoed those of Lenin, Stalin, and to a lesser extent, Malenkov. "Heavy industry," Bulganin said, "has always been and remains the foundation for the further upsurge of our national economy... Our highly developed heavy industry is the great, historical achievement of the Communist Party and of the Soviet people." Although the Soviet Union would like the world to think its industrial economy is without weakness, economic specialists at the Russian Research Center know differently. These men, who daily inspect the latest Soviet...
...GREAT MODERN SHORT NOVELS (448 pp.)-James Joyce, Herman Melville, Katherine Anne Porter, Nikolai Gogol, Glenway Wescott, William Faulkner-Dell (paperback...