Word: pushkins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pushkin, for my stratagem...
...hugging overcoat, Eugene Rabinowitch, 63, bears small resemblance to a prophet of doom. He seems much better suited to his other roles: professor of botany and biophysics at the University of Illinois, world authority on photosynthesis, a Russian-born poet who composes in his native language and has translated Pushkin into German...
...operators parceled out piecework to fast-knitting cohorts in the capital's Pushkin Dry Goods Factory, even to patients in his mental institution. Before long, Roifman's enterprise involved 52 factories, workshops and collective farms, was turning out sweaters, shirts and kerchiefs. Business was so good that Roifman had to expand into rented basements. After that, production increased rapidly. His total output, 460 tons, was retailed clandestinely at Moscow's busy Kursk Railroad Station through the collusion of two stationmasters, and at street markets...
Schmidt starts slowly in his opening monologue. But once surrounded by foils he is marvelously poised, a dashing, foolish master of the simpering toadies. He rants on about his acquaintance with the great ("Well Pushkin, old man, how are things?") and finally falls besodden and exhausted...
Died. Georgy Maximovich Pushkin. 54. Russian diplomat currently ranked as a deputy foreign minister, whose list of achievements includes the efficient Communization of Hungary (as ambassador from 1945 to 1949) and East Germany (as head of the Soviet Diplomatic Mission from 1949 to 1952 and ambassador from 1954 to 1958); of a heart attack; in Moscow...