Word: russian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...honored guest at a Baptist Sunday service held in a large wooden hall crammed with more than 2,500 worshipers, most of them women. But he did not preach. He had the wrong kind of visa. Russian Baptist leaders explained politely: "It is not customary here to have tourists preach." Perhaps this would be possible on his next visit, they added, and Billy asked to be shown the mammoth Lenin Stadium, which seats 100,000. ("I knelt and asked God," he said later, "that some day it will be filled with people listening to the Gospel...
...Paris last week, after five days of Intourist tourism, Baptist Graham told reporters he had not been surprised when Russian religious leaders told him that atheism was declining and religion rising in the U.S.S.R. "I could read on the faces of the people a great spiritual hunger, and the sort of insecurity that only God can solve," he said. "We don't like Communism, but we love the Russian people...
Tourist Graham also had a good word to say for "the high standard of Russian morality" and the "moral purity" of the Russians as compared to the broad-daylight sex life he had observed in London parks (TIME, June 22). Said Billy: "I did not see one person walking down the street with an arm around another. We went to a park where thousands of young people were gathered. They held hands, but they were very disciplined...
...large and growing investment in education, science and technology. Russia's rapid industrial growth is a factor that must be reckoned with, concludes the report, but so must two other facts: Soviet labor drained into industry leaves other sectors of Russia's economy weakened and. since Russian manpower has its limits, "has even more important implications for the future rate of Russia's industrial growth...
Time Walked, by Vera Panova. Day-by-day wonders in the life of a six-year-old boy, warmly told by a skillful Russian novelist...