Word: russian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...became one of the colony's most respected China analysts. When Radio Peking flashed an announcement of the completed People's Congress, both English and Chinese TV camera crews went to Wong's apartment to get his assessment. David Aikman, a Ph.D. candidate in Chinese and Russian history at the University of Washington in Seattle before joining TIME in 1971, has made two trips to the mainland. In a skillful display of Pekingology, Aikman deduced that major events were taking place in the Great Hall of the People from two obscure but telling bits of news: provincial...
...spectacular news story, the kind that in more innocent times used to be called a "scoop." The Soviet Union's Leonid Brezhnev was coming to Boston to be treated for leukemia, or so announced the Boston Globe earlier this month. Trouble was, the Russian leader never showed up. Last week it became clear that the Globe had been the victim of another grand old journalistic tradition: the hoax...
...weeks that the Communist Party boss was sick (see EUROPE). As it happened, the hoaxer, who is still unidentified, worked in the ideal setting to exploit the Brezhnev situation: Boston's renowned Sidney Farber Cancer Center. The hoaxer made up a fake admission schedule card for the Russian leader in the style used by clinic personnel: "L. Brezhnev. No wait. See Dr. Frei." Someone in the clinic saw the card and, apparently just to be helpful, called a Boston policeman and asked, "Did you know that Brezhnev was coming to town...
...successes: reservoirs, railways, hydroelectric plants and canals were built. Yet the Great Leap wasted enormous resources and disastrously lowered productivity, ushering in the harsh economic recession and poor agricultural yields of the early 1960s. Kremlin denunciation of the Leap for not imitating the Soviet model and the withdrawal of Russian technicians from China climaxed in the Moscow-Peking rift...
...Russian-born economist is 68 years old--past Harvard's mandatory retirement age-- but said he had been asked to continue to teach at Harvard, "at least for two or three years...