Word: pavel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even as all Moscow reverberated with the volleys of invective loosed upon Boris Pasternak (see FOREIGN NEWS), the Nobel Prize committee announced that the prize in physics had been awarded to Russian Physicists Pavel A. Cherenkov, Igor I. Tamm and Ilya M. Frank. Without a trace of embarrassment over its inconsistency, Soviet officialdom beamed, and nobody charged (as they had with Pasternak) that it would amount to accepting a "handout" from "the enemy." All three Russians rank high in the esteem of,the outside world as well as in the Soviet scientific hierarchy. Dr. Tamm is often rated...
...pipeline surveys, organizes flying clubs, maintains all nonmilitary airports and directs two colleges which train pilots and ground technicians. It is difficult to tell where the Red air force leaves off and Aeroflot begins. Bossing it is onetime Air Force Commander in Chief (1950-57) Chief Air Marshal Pavel Zhigarev, 60. veteran pilot and bomber expert who got the airline job a year...
...PAVEL Y. MESHIK, an NKVD department head and minister of the interior in the Ukraine...
...bomb?" "Don't be a fool," came the reply. "It was a bomb, and a big one. Seconds later the Iron Curtain was lowered, and even Israeli police, barred from the legation, had to wait outside while the injured were carried out. The wife of Soviet Minister Pavel Yershov was slightly hurt, the legation housekeeper was wounded seriously (fragments in the abdomen) and had to be rushed to Hadassah Hospital in an ambulance. A tight-lipped legation official rode with her, suspiciously demanded to know every step the Jewish doctors performed, and insisted on being present during the emergency...
...limousine pulled away from the Soviet legation in Tel Aviv last week, threaded its way through the stony Judean hills to Jerusalem, and rolled to a stop before a wide white building with green onion domes. Out of the car and into the incense-filled Russian Orthodox Church filed Pavel Ivanovich Ershov, Soviet minister to Israel, and some of his top staff aides. The churchgoing Communists were adding some new wrinkles to an old plot they had inherited from the czars...