Word: russian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lindbergh kidnaping, and Sam Bronfman was a man who liked to anticipate trouble and take precautions. That was a trait he had inherited from his father, Yechiel, who had been a prosperous miller in Bessarabia in Eastern Europe. When Yechiel went to Montreal in 1889 in flight from Russian antiSemitism, he booked passage not only for his wife and three children, but also for a young rabbi to guard his children's Jewish faith in the New World...
...filming of The Bluebird, the first full-length movie collaboration between the Soviet Union and the U.S., has gone a lot less smoothly than hoped. The picture, filmed in Leningrad and based on Maurice Maeterlinck's classic fairy tale, first faltered when the Russian cinematographer overexposed much of the early film and had to be replaced. Then one U.S. star (James Coco) dropped out for gall-bladder surgery and another (Elizabeth Taylor) fled to a London hospital suffering from amoebic dysentery. Last week everything seemed back in focus as members of the crews and cast gathered at the Leningrad...
...higher farm and processed-food prices. Although the index bounces around erratically from month to month (it declined a shade in June), there is no reason to think that August figures will be much better. The latest report covers only part of the surge in grain prices that followed Russian purchases and does not include coffee boosts triggered by a frost in Brazil or a 3?-per-gal. hike in gasoline...
...technical assistance and equipment for manufacturing hand-held calculators. On the consumer front, the Soviets have placed a $23 million order with Intertex International for machinery to make synthetic furs and signed a contract (dollar amount unspecified) with R.J. Reynolds Industries for technical advice on improving the quality of Russian cigarettes and tobacco...
...Mount Ararat, where Noah had brought his ark to rest, hid the radar stations of NATO. The literate Armenians liked "Jerome Salinger" and refused to talk of Solzhenitsyn. They were grateful for a land free of the old oppressions; yet some had seen their sons taken away by the Russian secret police. These Armenians, too, were running from yesterday. On a summer night one told his guest, "It's too nice an evening for history." But there was never an evening too nice to block tragic recollections. There never would...