Word: russian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disher-upper of cold-war epithets raised the Homburg and waved, and he cracked a certain smile as he posed with his East Germans at his elbow. (Actually, at least three of the six East Germans, including Foreign Minister Lothar Bolz, are Soviet citizens who spent years in Russian exile, came back to Germany with the Red armies.) Taking his turn in the chair next day. Gromyko pressed for admitting Poland and Czechoslovakia to the table too. Neither nation was one of the allied victors who are charged with making a German peace treaty, but Gromyko argued that they...
Matched against the 158-man U.S. contingent, the four Russian newsmen seemed lost in the 1,174-man army of correspondents and technicians from 56 nations that swarmed through Geneva last week. But the Russians cared not a bit. Long on record as thinking the Big Four foreign ministers' conference a time-wasting prelude to the summit, the Russian government was out to shape the news, not report it. And Soviet press pitchmanship was an outstanding feature of the first conference week...
...Soviets always staged a good show. They grabbed off a large, airy upstairs conference room, while Britain and the U.S. were lodged in the basement. They were the only Big Four delegation to brief newsmen in two languages (Russian and English). While Western spokesmen -the U.S.'s earnest Assistant Secretary of State Andrew Berding, Britain's smooth Peter Hope and France's witty Pierre Baraduc-were stuck with reporting the actual facts of the conference, Russia's lively Mikhail A. Kharlamov labored under no such handicap, tirelessly and articulately peddled the Communist line...
...field questions, later used the old politician's trick of calling a surprise session at noon in order to hit the afternoon papers with a fresh story (the claim that Russia would insist to the end on full participation for Communist Poland and Czechoslovakia). With such attractions, Russian briefings regularly attracted bigger audiences than those of the West...
Turning out such dancers regularly is a feat on which the Russians spend almost as much thought and energy as on a FiveYear Plan. The Bolshoi company is schooled in a dingy, three-story building at No. 2 Pushechnaya Street in the heart of Moscow. The training school (one of 14 state ballet schools in Russia) is swamped by applications from 1,500 Russian 7-to 9-year-olds each year; no more than 40 are accepted. Bolshoi students get full board and tuition, wear traditional uniforms that vary with their ages, e.g., blue shirts and red ties...