Word: ogonek
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...following is an excerpt from an article in the November 23, 1958 issue of "Ogonek," a Russian magazine comparable in format and circulation to "Life." The translation is by Kent Geiger. The rest of the article will appear in its entirely next week in the CRIMSON...
...trips was to Wall Street, where New York Stock Exchange President Keith Funston explained to the visitors how Americans can own the tools of production simply by buying stocks. When one Red journalist jestingly pointed out that Anatoly Vladimirovich Sofronov is a prosperous playwright as well as editor of Ogonek, one of Russia's most successful magazines, a nearby broker quickly handed Sofronov his card, just in case he wanted to invest his money. At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the journalists paid scant attention to the pictures. Instead they hobnobbed with a group of sixth-graders from Brooklyn...
...Soviet Ogonek, Georgi Blok describes a sensational exhibit at a recent meeting of the Moscow Surgical Society. On the platform close to the guests of honor stood a large white dog, wagging its tail. From one side of its neck protruded the head of a small brown puppy. As the surgeons watched, the puppy's head bit the nearest white ear. The white head snarled...
...hopes that the Russians will not be the first to garrison an orbit. (Last week the Russian magazine Ogonek predicted that the Soviet flag will be raised on the moon within 50 years.) Von Braun admits that his writings have been deliberate attempts to arouse popular enthusiasm and warm the cold feet of timid military planners. In writing for the public, he has had to omit convincing details that would have made his plan sound much more practical. During the last few years, he says, behind the wall of military secrecy there has been great progress. He believes that...
...newspapers and magazines, Dallin gets his view of things behind the Iron Curtain by piecing together bits of news and information in Soviet periodicals. Recently, Dallin reported an alarming discovery; Federal Government bureaus had seized such magazines as Bolshevik (which changed its name this month to Kommunist) and Ogonek, thus depriving Dallin and others of an "important source of knowledge and weapon in the cold...