Word: pirogov
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...specimens would attract more publicity than Gargantua and His Mate, Virginia go-getters set out to bag them. Last week, after negotiations with the State Department and the armed forces, Virginia was rewarded. The Russian airmen, blond, 32-year-old Anatoly Barsov, and black-haired, 29-year-old Piotr Pirogov, were delivered to the U.S. for a grand tour of the Old Dominion...
...while crowds, which had followed them in, stared curiously back. They were offered a free shirt apiece, unerringly picked the most expensive ones in the showcase. At the camera counter they announced, this time a little apologetically, that they thought the Germans made better photographic equipment than the Americans. Pirogov was openly enthusiastic at the sight of pretty models parading past in expensive dresses, but Barsov was doubtful...
...revolutionist, perhaps, like Lenin," said Pirogov...
...Everyone Listens." Last week Pirogov and Barsov held a mammoth press conference in the Camp McCauley officers' club. They explained to the world what made two officers in the Red air force, the most privileged group in Russia, choose to join the tens of thousands of Russian soldiers and civilians who have made their way to the West since 1945. "The Party," said Pirogov, "does nothing to meet the needs and desires of the people." "And elections aren't free!" shouted Barsov, banging his fist on the table. "They must vote at the point...
...Pirogov and Barsov were eager to start learning about the western world. Shown a bathtub, they started to climb in with their shorts on; they thought it was a small swimming pool...