Word: pavelic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Black, Black Sky. Exactly 23 hours and 32 minutes after Nikolaev's blastoff, just as he was breaking Titov's record by completing his 18th orbit, Moscow announced triumphantly that a second cosmonaut, Ukrainian-born Lt. Col. Pavel Romanovich Popovich, 31, had been hurled into space in a capsule called Vostok IV. Within an hour, the two space craft had established radio contact with each other, and Nikolaev reported to control headquarters that he was watching Vostok IV through his porthole. Plotting the radio signals, scientists outside Russia estimated that the two space craft were 74.5 miles apart...
Gordeyev tells the tragic story of a morally sensitive, socially conscious young Russian merchant (Georgy Yepifanstev) of the last century who asks himself: "Is a man born only to make money?" In an episode of shuddery weirdness and God-haunted irony, the sanctimonious serpent (Pavel Tarasov) who serves as the hero's guardian, glassily indifferent to the vast icon of Christ that looms behind him, replies: "Eat or be eaten. That is the law of life." Unable to accept such a law, unable to find a better one, unable to love a good woman (Alia Labetskaya), the hero plunges...
...greatest pleasure was a trip to his native Radna (renamed Lipova II) in western Transylvania, now a part of Communist Rumania. There he played emotional host to a procession of townspeople who had not forgotten him: "I am the son of John the carpenter." "I am the granddaughter of Pavel of the green...
...Ginger. From beginning to end, said their guide, the Russians behaved like "schoolboy tourists." There were minor difficulties, of course. Pavel Erofeev, administrative secretary of the Union of Soviet Journalists, and the delegation's pin-money treasurer, refused to convert his $3,000 expense-money draft into traveler's checks, demanded cash (he got it). Teetotaler Erofeev also had transcontinental trouble ordering the soft drink recommended by Teetotaler Salisbury; Erofeev kept asking for ginger ale, but his hosts, misinterpreting his basic English, kept bringing him gin rickeys and gin-and-tonic. "The Russians were charmed by Disneyland," said...