Word: olga
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite their anger over the way their U.S. host was peeking into the activities of Americans at U.N., the U.N. high command had to admit that some pretty startling creatures were still being found in the woodwork. The most startling of all was Olga Michka, a slim, cold-eyed blonde of 33. Called before the Senators, she told a strange story of two citizenships. Her parents are both naturalized Americans who were born in Russia. Several years ago, she said, they had split over politics: her mother decided she preferred Soviet Russia, her father and brother maintained their loyalty...
During the early years of the Russian Revolution, its leaders were a great deal more preoccupied with shortening human life than lengthening it. But times change. Moscow now has an Institute for the Prolongation of Life, headed by Septuagenarian Biologist Olga Lepeshinskaya...
...years to be confused with glamorous Prima Ballerina Olga Lepeshinskaya, 34, one of the two ranking stars of the unrivaled ballet company of Moscow's Bolshoi Theater...
...Rome correspondent for Pravda, stout, blonde Olga Cecetkina, 50, was like no other foreign reporter in Italy. She traveled up & down the country making pro-Communist speeches, filed stores to Moscow that were often pure fiction. Even when she reported speeches by Italian Communist Leader Palmiro Togliatti, said the Italian government, she added declarations that Togliatti never made. According to Correspondent Cecetkina, Togliatti said: "The only leaders we obey are Stalin and his associates." Actually, even the government agreed that Togliatti is too smart a politician to say anything like that to an Italian audience. Last week the Italian government...
...Madame Olga Averino's song recital in Sanders Theatre Monray night was notable not so much for vocal quality as for interpretive excellence. Her voice, despite its tonal richness and vigor, has limitations. Particularly in the very high and very low registers, she seemed to show signs of strain as well as uncertain pitch...