Word: odessa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There he piloted Ambassador William C. Bullitt in anO-38F observation plane for hours over targets that his Air Force was later to lock in-Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Odessa, the Crimea. There he made his first headlines. While White was flying Bullitt into Leningrad one day, the )0-38F engine iced up, whereupon White pancaked into a field, hit a few rough spots, went over on his back. Ambassador Bullitt wired President Roosevelt: "Landed upside down. Got out right side up." Later the Russians gave White a Soviet military pilot's license. ("Tommy," quips a Washington...
Last week the Israeli Foreign Office reported a sinister followup. A Moscow embassy attache vacationing on the Black Sea was hustled out of a Jewish friend's Odessa apartment one night and interrogated for 26 hours by secret police agents, apparently convinced that the Youth Festival outbursts could not have been spontaneous and must have been organized with embassy help. He was told that if he did not cooperate, "You will simply disappear and your clothes will be found upon the beach...
...jealous Stalin spread stories that "before each operation at the front Zhukov used to take a handful of earth, smell it and say: 'We can begin the attack,' or the opposite: 'The planned operation cannot be carried out.' " Zhukov was banished for six years, to Odessa, then to the Urals. But within 24 hours of Stalin's death, he was back in high command...
Died. Dr. Vladimir Petrovich Filatov, 81, leading Soviet eye surgeon and medical researcher, who developed (by 1936) one of the earliest successful techniques for corneal transplants; in Odessa...
Once, so the story goes, a Soviet commissar visited Violinist David Oistrakh in Odessa, looked into a cradle and sternly ordered, "Make that boy as good a violinist as his father." For a while it looked as if nothing like that could ever happen. David Oistrakh was already on his way to being one of the world's finest fiddlers, and young Igor showed signs of detesting violin sounds from the time he started making them at the age of six. But they kept his bow to the catgut. At 18 he entered the Moscow conservatory, became a master...