Word: russianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days between Sputnik I and Explorer were as important to the U.S. as perhaps any similar peacetime span in its history. To a few querulous quidnuncs they were a time for crying out, for attributing to Russian technology a gigantic leap in military power, for downrating beyond reason the present-day U.S. ability to keep the peace through unequaled sea and air strength. On an Administration all too satisfied with things as they are, Sputnik forced a review of policies and the uncomfortable discovery that the major shortcomings lay in top-level decision-making and policy-planning. To diplomats...
...accidental symbolism the Explorer's success drove the Russian propaganda campaign for a summit meeting off the front pages. Overseas, U.S. allies generally cheered Explorer's success more enthusiastically than did the cautious U.S. itself. At home, TIME correspondents in 22 U.S. cities reported that citizens generally shrugged their shoulders, said they knew it would happen, or said, "It's about time...
NICOLAI GEDDA, 31. born in Stockholm of Russian-Swedish parents (his father was a baritone in the Don Cossack Chorus), did well in his Met debut as Faust, outdid himself as Ottavio in Don Giovanni, Anatol in Vanessa. Tall for a tenor-his pressagent, measuring with a basketball coach's rubber ruler, claims 6 ft. 3 in. -Gedda offers a clear, sweet voice that may lack warmth ("Champagne rather than Chianti," says one critic), but has strength and purity. His acting is intelligent, his pronunciation unusually correct for the opera stage; he is a linguist, speaks seven languages...
Fertilizers for Ivan? Neuburger first got the idea for a trade fair in Moscow when he attended Moscow's Agricultural Exhibition in 1954, noted how thousands of Russians flocked in to view dull farm machinery and farm produce. When he approached the U.S. Government with the idea for a U.S. trade fair, it raised no objections but pooh-poohed the notion that the Russians would ever permit such a fair. Neuburger got Manhattan Lawyer Marshall MacDuffie (who, as chief of the UNRRA mission to the Ukraine after World War II, had met Khrushchev) to talk to top Russian brass...
...building space and $3 for open space. Though firms will be allowed to exhibit whatever they please, the fair's directors stress audience-participation exhibits and displays that demonstrate the U.S. way of life. Neuburger plans to have a U.S. supermarket, beauty shows, jiffy shoe repairing shops for Russian visitors; he also hopes to bring some U.S. artists to Moscow to exhibit, get 50 university professors to lecture at the fair. Says he: "If we had a roomful of empty matchbooks on display, they would still stand in line for hours...