Word: russian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kabul, Moscow's aid has a more pleasing and dramatic look. On Russian-paved streets, Soviet-made taxis dart in and out of the traffic of laden camels and horse-drawn carriages. Over the city looms an eleven-story mechanized silo with a bakery attached where Russian experts supervise the mass production of bread and its delivery throughout the city by a fleet of Russian trucks. Some $300 million in Soviet grants and loans provide Afghanistan with oil-storage tanks, power plants, factories and a direct radiotelephone link with Moscow. Today, fully half of Afghanistan's trade...
Along with all this went a persistent rumor that Red China was determined to fire a rocket that was not a toy-a Russian-supplied missile that might put a Chinese satellite in orbit around the earth. If the rocket failed, there was speculation that Red China might explode an Abomb, also borrowed from the Russians. One way or another, Red China this week plans to overawe its Asian neighbors and to serve notice on the West that it is a nation with the ambitions, if not the substance, of a first-rank power...
...approved Soviet Novelist Mikhail (And Quiet Flows the Don) Sholokhov, 54, and Boston-disapproved U.S. Novelist Erskine (Tobacco Road) Caldwell, 55, met for the first time since they were war correspondents in the U.S.S.R. during World War II. Caldwell complained that he gets no royalties from his highly popular Russian editions. Sholokhov's rejoinder: he gets no money from the U.S. for his books either. Later, Author Sholokhov sounded off in Washington to some U.S. authors about Nobel Prize-declining Novelist Boris (Doctor Zhivago) Pasternak. "A hermit crab," sniffed Sholokhov. Pointing out that they had never met, he added...
Thrilled but undazzled, Columnist Landers-who is the wife of Ballpoint Pen Executive Jules Lederer-took a Berlitz cram course in Russian, then flew off to see what makes Reds red-eyed. After three weeks she came back with a stack of well-filled notebooks, turned out a dozen columns on her impressions of Russia ("Everybody needed a bath and a haircut"; "Russians put a premium on brains"; "a warm, affectionate people"). Through all her copy ran familiar Landers material: "Ivan is worried about Irena's supervisor at the furniture factory. He has heard rumors-and she has been...
Except for the dateline and the names, Reporter Landers' Russian diary, which has been bought by 55 papers, was barely distinguishable from her running chronicle of domestic woe. She went to Russia, said Landers Fan Fanning, "to find out what the hell people are up to." What people are up to in Moscow, according to Dear Ann, is the same old mischief and misery that fills the capitalist press's lovelorn columns...