Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bore down through the haze toward a runway at New York International Airport, then pulled up again for a second approach and a safe, deft landing. Airport attendants and assembled dignitaries craned for a close look as it taxied up. The TU-114 turboprop was not only the first Russian jet to land in New York but had just made the 4,660 miles from Moscow in a nonstop...
...plane stepped a stocky, round-faced Russian with a curly iron-grey pompadour who was just as remarkable as the TU-114. He was Soviet First...
...Romanovich Kozlov, 50, in the U.S. to open up a Soviet science, technology and culture exhibition in Manhattan (see BUSINESS), accompanied by a group of aides that included the big plane's designer, Andrei Tupolev. After a greeting from Soviet Ambassador Mikhail ("Smiling Mike") Menshikov, Kozlov said in Russian: "I am proud of this opportunity to visit your city and your wonderful country...
Since 1942, Fuchs confessed, he had been a Russian spy-not for money (a mere $280 was all he got), but convinced that he was somehow serving to bring about and keep the peace. He admitted that he had passed on atomic secrets to Soviet agents in New York. Los Alamos and London (Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, executed in the U.S. for treason, were members of the Fuchs spy ring). He had not felt that he was betraying his adopted country or his many British and U.S. friends, said Fuchs, because he was able to keep his Communist and democratic...
...months ago a desperate military attache in Russia's Burmese embassy. Colonel Mikhail I. Stryguine, tried to leap to freedom from his hospital window, was nabbed by Russian goons, spirited off to Rangoon airport, and flown away in a Communist plane (TIME, May 18). Last week another Russian embassy staffer there wanted out. This time he made...