Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vladimir Mikhailovich Petrov seemed rather elderly (about 45) to be only a third secretary, which was the post he filled for the past three years in the Soviet embassy at Canberra. But Petrov appeared to wield more authority than his rank called for. Plump and spectacled, he paid little attention to the rules of purdah for Russians abroad-he was affable, a good mixer, spoke fair English, frequented hotel bars, went on fishing trips with Westerners. With his pretty blonde wife, an embassy stenographer, he lived in a comfortable brick house less than a quarter of a mile from...
...Ingalls, a grandnephew of President William Howard Taft, became the U.S. Navy's only ace in World War I. He served as Assistant Navy Secretary for Air under Hoover, was an unsuccessful candidate for governor of Ohio (1932). Lawyer Ingalls went into the Navy again, rose to the rank of commodore during World War II, worked on Taft's campaigns after coming...
...best South African biography is Sarah Gertrude Millin's Cecil Rhodes; the best novels, Olive Schreiner's The Story of an African Farm (1883) and Pauline Smith's The Beadle (1926). Publication of The Fire-Raisers brings another woman novelist into the front rank of South African fiction...
Secure in his top rank among contemporary U.S. composers of symphonic music, Aaron Copland last week took the plunge into opera. Shy about his venture, Veteran (53) Composer Copland first thought of launching The Tender Land (a story of the rural Midwest) far from the calloused ears of Manhattan critics ("I thought maybe Canada"). Then came an irresistible offer to open it at the New York City Opera, and Copland gave...
...Tory, this was revolutionary. Rab was accused of "me tooism," of "trying to amalgamate the Tory Party with the Y.M.C.A." Even Tories who had no quarrel with Rab's principles felt a distaste for putting Utopian plans on paper. But in local meetings and party conferences, the rank & file enthusiastically adopted Rab's policy papers. Tory Party membership nearly doubled in the space of a year. In 1951 the Tories came back to office. Their margin was narrow -in fact, Labor polled more votes while the Conservatives won a handful more seats. If they had failed...