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...NIKOLAI LENIN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Adler's List: | 3/7/1977 | See Source »

...With the single-minded ambition that distinguishes Olympic champions-a characteristic that the two-week extravaganza in Montreal brought vividly to an audience of a billion people-the 26-year-old Jenner had achieved a goal set four years ago at Munich: that he would beat Soviet Champion Nikolai Avilov...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Glittering Quest for Gold | 8/9/1976 | See Source »

...decathlon competition at Munich four years ago, Russian Gold Medalist Nikolai Avilov was still catching his breath when a young man approached him, shook his hand and announced he would take Avilov's crown away from him at the next Olympics. "I took a good look," Avilov recalls. "Just think, a kid who had placed way down the list somewhere [tenth] threatening to beat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: TEN TESTS FOR TWO | 7/19/1976 | See Source »

Also decided by that time may be the second question: Who is the handsomer decathlon star? This too will be a close contest. "Have you ever seen a picture of Adam and Eve?" asks Avilov's wife Valentina, a former Olympic high jumper. "Well, Nikolai is Adam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: TEN TESTS FOR TWO | 7/19/1976 | See Source »

...leaders of the Soviet Union -Leonid Brezhnev, Nikolai Podgorny, Aleksei Kosygin-were downcast as they stood by the flower-covered bier in Moscow's imposing Trade Union House. While a string orchestra played funeral dirges, thousands of workers, soldiers and bureaucrats filed past the medal-bedecked dais for a last look at the jut-jawed countenance of Marshal Andrei Antonovich Grechko, Soviet Defense Minister and architect of the Kremlin's modern-day military might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: Abrupt Change of Command | 5/10/1976 | See Source »

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