Word: russian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...project, which brought us our first aerial photographic views of Soviet military capability and later warned us of the Cuban missile crisis. He was part of the undercover seduction of Soviet Spies Oleg Penkovsky and Pyotr Popov, the former passing along a manual on the field operation of Russian nuclear missiles...
Although the Soviet Tu-144 became the first civilian aircraft to break the sonic barrier in 1969, the Anglo-French Concorde soon shot several sound-years ahead of its Russian rival with the inauguration of regular transatlantic passenger service in 1976. Last week the Soviet Union belatedly entered the supersonic sweepstakes by initiating regular Tu-144 flights on a little-traveled run between Moscow and Alma-Ata, an industrial city of 860,000 near the Chinese border. Price of a one-way ticket on the once-a-week flight: $113. TIME Moscow Bureau Chief Marsh Clark was the first Western...
...Russian plane, nicknamed Concordski by Westerners, looked almost like a twin of the Concorde with its ant-eater nose and swept-back delta wings, though its white fuselage was badly in need of a bath or a paint job. Also like the Concorde, the Tu-144 had a small cabin with narrow aisles and elbow-to-elbow seating; it carried a maximum of 140 passengers (the Concorde carries only 100). The inaugural aircraft lacked posh decor. Several of its ceiling panels were ajar, service trays got stuck, and window shades slipped down without being pulled...
...would change human nature Man would, predicted Leon Trotsky, "become immeasurably stronger wiser and subtler. His body will become nore harmonized, his voice more musical. The average hu man type will rise to the heights of an Aristotle, a Goethe a Marx. Looking back over 60 years of the Russian Revolution, Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev last week pronounced the stupendous enterprise a success: "Comrades, no event in world history has had such a profound and lasting effect on mankind as the great October Socialist Revolution."* Listening to Brezhnev's grandiloquence was an audience that included Socialist and Communist leaders...
...made no definite plans for the seminar, although it has considered cosponsoring the seminar with the Russian Research Center, Charlotte Moore, a coordinator for CUS, said yesterday...