Word: russian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Loudspeakers wake the populace at 5:30 a.m. daily for calisthenics, summon the hapless inhabitants to compulsory afternoon political meetings. Diversions are few. Hanoi cinemas now show only Russian and Red Chinese films, and there is talk of abolishing the traditional Vietnamese theater because, in the words of one official, "it links the people with the past." Hanoi has only two newspapers, one run by the party, the other by the labor union...
Word sifted from the State Department that Career Diplomat Charles E. T. ("Chip") Bohlen, 54, longtime (1950-57) Russian-speaking U.S. Ambassador to the U.S.S.R., and since then Ambassador to the Philippines, may soon go back to Washington, become top adviser of State's brand-new Soviet-affairs desk...
...both correspondent and aide. Missing not a chance to make propaganda hay, the Soviets turned out big crowds to cheer at every stop. Harriman addressed an open-air rally at the new Siberian iron-mining town of Rudny, several times spoke over local radio stations, was everywhere interviewed by Russian newsmen. Jotting it all down in separate notebooks, Harriman and Thayer spent long hours each evening disputing their impressions. When at last an article was ripe, Thayer would retire to hammer out a first draft behind a locked door, later return to defend it in heated argument over whether "entered...
...impress the U.S. with Soviet "science, technology and culture." the Russians opened a trade fair in Manhattan's Coliseum this week-the first big exhibit of Soviet wares in the U.S. since the 1939 New York World's Fair. The Soviet Union spent more than $10 million on the New York show, which touches on nearly every aspect of Russian life from art and ballet to city planning, and sent their First Deputy Premier Frol Koslov (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) to preside at the opening. The 10,000 exhibits are good, bad and indifferent by U.S. standards; the overall...
Architect-Designer K. I. Rozdestvensky, who designed the Russian pavilion at the 1939 World's Fair and the Russian exhibit in Brussels last summer, has set the tone of the show with a giant, 54-ft. curving aluminum fin: a slice of the universe, crisscrossed with red and yellow traceries of satellites, surrounded by full-scale models of the buglike Sputnik I and the heavy cone that carried the dog Laika into orbit. In the background rise four 48-ft. triangular columns, showing heroic Russians more than twice life-size over legends such as: THERE IS NO ILLITERACY...