Word: russian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Khrushchev as the deadline for the Western powers to desert West Berlin. Now the Big Four foreign ministers were returning to Geneva, where they had been trying to get off the diplomatic ground for three weeks. The trip of Able and Baker had meaning to the Geneva conference. A Russian dog named Laika had been the first living animal to orbit through space, and there she died. Able and Baker, labeled "U.S.A.," traveled beyond the atmosphere-and lived. In the Russian-U.S. race for outer space, there was no such thing as continued supremacy...
...President informed of the best scientific thinking, helped chart the course of U.S. space policy. Last week, at 54, fittingly on the very day that the U.S. sent the first living creatures traveling through space and back, Killian resigned to return to his duties at M.I.T. His successor: Russian-born George Bogdan ("K.") Kistiakowsky, 58, brilliant professor of chemistry at Harvard and every inch a scientists' scientist...
Flour with a Flourish. The son of a professor of philosophy of law at the University of Moscow, Kistiakowsky (pronounced Kiss-tuh-kof-ski), volunteered for the White Russian army during the Russian civil war, served in the infantry and tank corps. In his two years of service, he almost died of typhus, was caught up by the Red army tide. Escaping, he shot his horse, jumped into the Black Sea and swam to a rescue ship, later made his way to Germany, where he enrolled for study at the University of Berlin in 1921, got his doctorate four years...
Khrushchev also praised John Foster Dulles as "a great political figure," but of course his compliment had a Communist twist to it. Khrushchev's bare-faced whopper: in his last days, chatting with Mikoyan, Dulles had reversed his policy and accepted Russian domination of Eastern Europe. Dulles was not alive to answer so gross a fairy story,* and Khrushchev added kindly, "To make such a declaration required courage." The State Department noted tartly that Khrushchev's menacing insults to Italy and Greece hardly fitted in with his pre-summit stance of trying to ease tensions...
Adzhubei's appointment is no nepotistic caper. At 34 he is one of Russia's most talented journalists; as editor, he pumped readability into Komsomolskaya Pravda, the Communist youth organ, by ordering firsthand factual reporting on the Russian scene, crusading against erring officials (e.g., a garage manager who had wrongly fired a worker). He helped to push Komsomolskaya Pravda's circulation from 1.500,000 five years...