Word: russianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eisenhower last week ordered a last-chance attempt to reach a first-step disarmament agreement with the Soviet Union. Eisenhower proposed that the U.S. and its allies extend their offer to suspend nuclear tests for ten months to a period of one year, renewable to two years, if the Russians would agree with the West to 1) quit making atomic weapons and 2) cooperate in setting up a foolproof worldwide system of inspection. "I sincerely hope," said the President, sounding what might well be the U.S.'s last word, "that the Soviet Union will now join us in agreeing...
...life, roly-poly Boris Mihailovich Morros, 62, has been a suave Slav charmer with a St. Petersburg touch to his accent. As he tells it, when he was 16 and already conducting the Russian Imperial Symphony, the charmed Rasputin pressed gifts upon him. At 42, as a Hollywood musical director, he persuaded Leopold Stokowski to make his first motion picture (The Big Broadcast of 1937). Even the U.S. Government capitulated to his charm. During Boris' twelve-year stint as an undercover man keeping tabs on Soviet spies, bemused FBI men referred to him as their "special special agent." Last...
...Germans left behind in Russia in World War II? Said Khrushchev: "We have long since come to agreement on repatriation of prisoners of war, and this has been carried out. I lost a son in the war, and so did Comrade Mikoyan. Many thousands of Russian soldiers are missing and presumed dead. You too can consider your alleged Germans dead...
...Hiroshima, is nothing but a propaganda tract against capitalism and Western imperialism. Another book, Enlightened Society, carries the picture of the "great leader" Mao Tse-tung, describes Japan as "the problem child of the Far East" and a nation that has always been inferior to China and Russia. The Russian declaration of war in 1945 is a triumph in which "the Japanese Kwangtung garrison, which had been played up as the. strongest of Japan's armies, melted away before the might of the Soviet forces...
Gluhareff, 41, Russian-born son of Michael Gluhareff, engineering manager of Sikorsky's major helicopter program, plans to manufacture his device in partnership with Los Angeles Industrialist Robert McCulloch, hopes to get bids from the armed services and firms such as oil companies, which often need to plunk down a man in rugged terrain. Wistfully, Gluhareff rules out one potential customer: the earthbound commuter. Says he: "The CAA would never approve...