Word: russianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the Boston Symphony toured Russia two years ago, the members of the string section heaped praise on Russian Violinist David Oistrakh, who had played with the orchestra during his U.S. tour. Russian musicians countered with a standard response: wait until you hear Leonid Kogan. In Manhattan's Carnegie Hall last week Violinist Kogan turned up with the Boston to demonstrate what his countrymen were talking about...
When the sun rose over Moscow last June 28, Russian astronomers observed a solar flare-a great jet of intensely hot gas spurting out of the sun. They flashed the news to the World Warning Agency near Washington, D.C., and a volley of messages alerted scientists all over the world, including those parts that were still in darkness. The effects of the flare, a violent magnetic storm and a radio blackout, were observed from the South Pole to the Arctic and all around the equator...
AVIATION Russian Challenge...
...improve Soviet Russia's 1,000-plane Aeroflot, Nikita Khrushchev hopes to make it another impressive display of the achievements of Soviet technology. Says the U.S. Air Transport Association's President Stuart Tipton: "Aeroflot is visibly preparing to challenge the supremacy of Western carriers. An effective Russian civil airline will facilitate Russia's economic penetration elsewhere, serve as a vehicle for political influence and act as an effective propaganda weapon...
Langer declined to comment on which scholastic fields would be in greatest demand for exchange, but expressed the conviction that there were many areas in which Russians and Americans would have similar interests in sending and receiving personnel. Since there will be "such a large field from which to draw," Langer added, a degree of competency in Russian will probably be advantageous to applicants. This advantage will have no relation, however, to the field of study of the applicant...