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Atomic Energy Executive Vasily Emelyanov, 58, Russian-born, German-trained, English-speaking metallurgist, who developed cast tank turret production in World War II, emerged in 1955 as one of the leading U.S.S.R. atomic energy administrators, made headlines at last year's atoms-for-peace conference at Geneva by complaining that the U.S. meant to blast off H-bombs in the guise of atoms for peace; Minister of Higher and Middle Specialized Education Vyacheslav P. Elyutin, 52, a metallurgist, moved on to take over the organization of higher education in the U.S.S.R., says: "Science is the discipline of the 20th...
Died. Dr. Abraham Stone, 68, gently persuasive, Russian-born birth-control advocate, who offered premarital counseling to thousands, advised as many others whose marriages were in trouble, by invitation toured India and Russia to lecture on contraceptives, collaborated on books (A Marriage Manual, Planned Parenthood) that became staples of marital advice; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...President informed of the best scientific thinking, helped chart the course of U.S. space policy. Last week, at 54, fittingly on the very day that the U.S. sent the first living creatures traveling through space and back, Killian resigned to return to his duties at M.I.T. His successor: Russian-born George Bogdan ("K.") Kistiakowsky, 58, brilliant professor of chemistry at Harvard and every inch a scientists' scientist...
...candidate for U.S. President, who, following Moscow's sentiments, cooperated with capitalism during World War II, was purged when the party line shifted in 1946; by Gladys Browder, 67, whom he deserted in 1924; after 48 years of marriage, one son (Browder had three other sons by a Russian-born wife whom he married without troubling to get a U.S. divorce); in Kansas City, Kans...
Moonfaced, Russian-born Al Greenfield went into the real estate business with $500 he borrowed, parlayed it into $15 million, which he lost in the Depression...