Word: russian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...force-are another matter. Obsolescent U.S. F-86s armed with Sidewinders so far have been far superior to the MIG-17s, as Free China's pilots have proved (TIME, Oct. 6). Nobody yet knows how well the U.S.'s F-100 series might do against the newest Russian fighter, the MIG-21. Nor is there much fresh information about the new Soviet all-weather, delta-winged interceptor. The big Russian interceptor force is helped in its job by what may be the world's best air-detection network. Soviet planes have not yet been able...
...burglars trying to break into a store. There was a burst of gunfire, and the four leaped into a taxi and fled, leaving the policeman dying from seven bullet wounds. Eyewitnesses provided one useful clue: the gunmen wore the narrow trousers, oversized jackets and ducktail haircuts of stilyagi, the Russian version of zoot-suiters...
...Viktor Shashkin, 19, an awkward, gangling youth with big, vacant eyes; Vadim Vorobiev, 17, with a dangling forelock and a crooked smile that revealed a gold cap set on a healthy tooth-a standard affectation of the stilyagi; Igor Kostiuk, known as "Harry,"* and pockmarked Viktor Sergeev. Usually, by Russian definition stilyagi are the no-good children of the well-to-do-"spoiled brats with plenty of money, time on their hands, a doting mother, father's Pobeda car." But all four of these youths, workers at the Moscow ball-bearing plant, came from workers' families...
...enough to suit Komsomolskaya Pravda, which complained especially because Shashkin, who did the actual shooting, got only 25 years. Why not death? demanded the paper. Under Soviet law, either the defense or the prosecution can appeal. Last week, on the prosecutor's appeal, the Supreme Court of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic ordered death by firing squad for Stilyaga Shashkin...
...consumer will not get less than he has been getting-he may perhaps get even a little more-but less than he has been promised. They conclude that reasons of international power have prevailed over consumer goods, and Khrushchev believes he can get away with it because the Russian consumer at least has more than he once...