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...tenders go into official displays such as the Venice Biennale and Expo 67. Only an occasional private exhibition affords Westerners a glimpse behind the red-tape curtain. One such view is offered by the new display of Russian painting at Manhattan's Gallery of Modern Art. Included in it are some 20 pictures from the collection of Nina Stevens, Russian-born wife of the CBS correspondent in Moscow...
...least a spark, in 1947 admitted her to his studio for study. "I executed a madonna in stone for him, and every minute was wonderful," she recalls. After learning sculpture's basic grammar from Moore, Brigitte was ready to leave traditional materials behind, sought out the Russian-born constructivist Antoine Pevsner in Paris, put in another year of apprenticeship with...
...Crusades, as Russian-born Historian Zoé Oldenbourg (The World is Not Enough, The Massacre of Montségur) says in this authentically detailed book of horrors, brought out both the noblest and the most despicable in feudal society...
Drunken Ducks. The problems inherent in helicopters make such prowess the more remarkable. Leonardo da Vinci sketched a rudimentary rotor craft in 1483, but even after Russian-born Igor Sikorsky introduced the U.S.'s first successful commercial version 25 years ago, copters remained so cantankerous as to be largely experimental. The indispensable element of a copter is the rotor, which enables it to take off and land on a dime, hover, fly in any direction, land on a dead engine. Spinning, a rotor not only tends to whirl the body of the machine in the opposite direction but makes...
Bombing Flour Sacks. The craft, so small that it tucks into a garage, so light that it can be lifted to the airfield atop a Thunderbird, was developed by Igor Bensen, 49, a Russian-born engineer. In the 1950s he set up Bensen Aircraft in Raleigh, N.C., to make and market sets of parts, which cost anywhere from $700 without engine to $2,600 for a complete kit that bolts together like an Erector set. To help push his product, Bensen founded the Popular Rotorcraft Association three years ago. Membership has already grown to 4,000 in all 50 states...