Word: russianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Public high schools have begun to show an interest in teaching Russian language courses, Albert B. Lord '34,chairman of the Slavic Department, revealed yesterday...
...Russian is taught in several private preparatory schools, including Browne and Nichols, Lord said, but this is the first time he has heard of any public high schools considering such a course. Although there has not been a large number of inquiries, Lord thought that they were "straws in the wind...
...more for its aid dollar than the U.S. The fact that the Soviets make loans rather than gifts is not resented as tightfisted, instead flatters the touchy pride of newly independent nations as businesslike dealing between equals. When they insist that the factories they build must be state property, Russian negotiators are often more in tune with the vaguely socialist ideology of most Afro-Asians than are U.S. aid administrators in their attempts to promote free enterprise. Needing raw materials and food that the underdeveloped countries produce, the Russians can profitably make barter deals that...
...days, though, the Pole was the top of the world for Barber, who has flown 1,000,000 miles since 1953 on assignments that sent him tracking Stanley's route through Africa, exploring a Moroccan smuggling trail, catching an Elsa Maxwell party in the Aegean and a Russian bullet in Budapest. Correspondent Barber, a sandy-haired 46, filed happily about the cold, the hazards, the food, the preparations for welcoming the Hillary expedition from New Zealand (see SCIENCE). He also told how he planted a homemade Union Jack at the Pole. One angle that escaped him: the long-established...
...cocktails in a fur-banded sheath, slip into a fur-topped evening dress, and the last thing at night clean her teeth with a fur-trimmed toothbrush and climb into her fur-trimmed pajamas. Furriers also are busily promoting complete fur costumes. Notable this season: a black Russian broadtail skirt and matching jacket worn by Zsa Zsa Gabor and a broadtail curve-hugging evening dress with a swallowtail train worn by Marlene Dietrich, both designed by Maximilian. Other creations: a $15,000 sable-lined raincoat, a $65,000 sable greatcoat, and a $5,000 Fredrica-designed strapless mink sheath...