Word: russian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pleasant, shy Mrs. Nina Petrovna Khrushchev, 59, is on her first headline trip outside Russia. According to Kremlin publicists, she fought for the Bolsheviks as an 18-year-old in the Russian civil war, went on to become a social science teacher, married Khrushchev in 1938. She is his second wife -First Wife Nadezhda died-and she raised Khrushchev's children. Three of the children will be with them in the U.S.: Julia, 38, a chemist, married to Kiev Opera Director Viktor Gonchar; Rada, 29, a biologist, married to Izvestia Editor Alexei Adzhubei; Sergei, 24, an electrical engineer. Khrushchev...
Literally the closest man to Khrushchev coast to coast will be Oleg Troyanovsky, 38, his personal interpreter and probably the best Russian-English linguist in the world. Troyanovsky, son of ex-Czarist Officer Alexander Troyanovsky, who was the U.S.S.R.'s first Ambassador to Washington (1934-38), attended the Quakers' Sidwell Friends School in Washington ("Blessed with that charm, the certainty to please," said the student quarterly), put in his freshman year at Swarthmore before returning to Moscow University. Troyanovsky first appeared in the Kremlin big picture as Stalin's interpreter in the 1947 conference with U.S. General...
...without back talk." Gromyko's personality opposite on the tour: Ambassador to the U.S. Mikhail ("Smiling Mike") Menshikov, 56, whose beaming arrival in Washington 18 months ago first signaled the Kremlin thaw. He has addressed more U.S. luncheon clubs and business groups than any other Red Russian in history. His wide travels have doubtless provided reporting on the U.S. mood...
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...
Rhode Island, a statewide self-criticism meeting yielded money from the legislature for special programs: calculus in Cumberland High School, Russian in Cranston High School, the M.I.T. physics course in East Providence High School. ¶ English composition, a top Conant priority, is getting overdue attention. Main problem: the teacher shortage. To produce one student theme a week. Conant suggested that no English teacher should handle more than 100 students. But correcting 100 themes at ten minutes each takes 17 hours of work-2½ hours seven nights a week. Chicago would need 330 more teachers, adding...