Word: russianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...U.S.S.R. had test-fired between four and six long-range ballistic missiles. The U.S. also knew that the big Red bird announced last week had not flown 5,000 miles but 3,500. The Kremlin announcement left unanswered a whole series of important questions: How many years will Russian industry need to make the missile an operational weapon? What kind of warhead has Russian technology produced for the bird? How precise...
Last week Stephan was all primed to take off on a vacation with his wife and 15-year-old son in his new Volkswagen. There was just one more chore to do before the fishing trip. A lot of old Russian shells had been fished out of Berlin's Havel River and brought to the police explosives site on the city's outskirts. To Stephan the job seemed routine. But as he unscrewed the fuse of a six-inch grenade, friction may have touched off a spark. The shell went up with a great explosion. When the smoke...
Nine years after she jumped from the third floor of the Russian consulate in Manhattan to escape being shanghaied back to Russia, 61-year-old former Schoolteacher Mrs. Oksana Kasenkina, still ailing, became a U.S. citizen at a heavily guarded ceremony in Boston...
...Exactly Like the Picture." The picture went back to Painter Chabas in Paris, who sold it to a well-rubied Russian for the equivalent of $10,000. But of all the fortunes made from reproductions of the picture by enterprising entrepreneurs, Chabas once plaintively remarked that "nobody was thoughtful enough to send me even a box of cigars...
Through the Russian Revolution the painting remained in Moscow, then mysteriously disappeared-to turn up later in Paris in the Gulbenkian Collection. By that time the painting had become a part of American folklore, and later generations, who considered the picture (if they considered it at all) about as innocuous as the White Rock girl, wondered what all the shouting had been about. This week they will have a chance to see for themselves. Bought by Philadelphia Main Liner William Coxe Wright, September Morn was presented to Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum. Current market value of the pre-World...