Word: russian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much the same old celebration of the Russian Revolution's anniversary (the 32nd this year). Lieut. General Vasily Stalin, the boss's son, led an aerial parade of four-engine bombers and jet fighters over the reviewing stand in Red Square. The main address was delivered by rising Red star Georgy M. Malenkov. Said Politburocrat Malenkov: the U.S. is trying to enslave the whole world, outdoing the Nazis and the Japanese imperialists; at the same time, the capitalist system is approaching another disastrous depression (by lumping in "those not working a full week," Malenkov arrived...
...eager to take his well-earned leave. Washington had granted permission, but there was still a question: How to get out of Tihwa? The Chinese Communist armies were pressing close. Chinese air service to Canton had been cut, and U.S. planes were barred from the province by a Sino-Russian treaty. Old China Hand Paxton, who had come to the Orient first with his missionary parents at the age of two, called his staff together for a conference. They decided to trek out of embattled Tihwa by truck and jeep, over the age-old route across the mighty Himalayas...
Wire & Rope. One day last August, the party set out for Kashgar, an ancient trading post near the Soviet border. There were 16 travelers, including 50-year-old Paxton and his wife Vincoe, an ex-Army nurse; Vice Consul Robert Dreeson; two White Russian chauffeurs and their wives & children; a Turki interpreter and his sister; his wife and four-month-old baby...
Serge Elisseff, chairman of the Far Eastern Languages Department, also heads the Institute. He personifies the international qualities of Harvard, being a French citizen of Russian extraction living in America studying China...
...Society's catering to "new blood" by reorganizing this fall under a new name and constitution really represents the growing demand for Slavic studies at Harvard. Until fairly recently, student interest in eastern European culture was focused mainly on Russian. But during the past two years, the Slavic Department, under the Chairmanship of Professor Karpovich, has expanded to become one of the centers of Slavic studies in the country. With the arrival this fall of two eminent scholars, Professor R. Jakobson--specialist in Slavic languages and civilization, and Dr. D. I. Cizovsky--distinguished for his work in Europe on philosophy...