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Detecting explosives by the vapors they give off is based on one of the stock-in-trade techniques of the modern scientific laboratory: chromatography, an analytical tool invented 64 years ago by an obscure Russian botanist named Mikhail Semenovich Tsvett. While trying to separate certain plant pigments, Tsvett discovered that they could be differentiated easily by letting a mixture wash down the side of a column of limestone. The pigments-each sticking to the surface in a characteristic way -flowed down the stone at markedly different rates, enabling Tsvett to distinguish them from one another. Over the years, chromatography...
Died. Dr. Miron Semenovich Vovsi, 62, one of 15 Russian-Jewish physicians charged in 1953 with the "doctors' plot" against Soviet leaders, who was cleared after Stalin's death and rehabilitated in 1957 when he received the Order of Lenin; of a heart attack; in Moscow...
Pythagorism, cried the magazine, had reared its transmigrated head in the proletarian writings of Vasily Semenovich Grossman, an engineer-turned-author who spent World War II as a combat correspondent with the Red army, and had moved on to high regard in Communist literary circles. For the Right Cause, Grossman's unfinished tome on the battle of Stalingrad, had been certified as dialectically sound by Moscow's literati. But after it appeared, Kommunist angrily reversed the verdict: For the Right Cause was "permeated" with the wrong slant. Pythagorist Grossman, warned Pravda a few days later, had better recant...
...slender Alexander Semenovich Panyushkin, 42, Soviet Russia's new ambassador to the U.S. (TIME, Nov. 3). Ambassador Panyushkin was one of 1,164 passengers aboard the luxury Cunarder Mauretania. As far as the newsmen were concerned he might have been the only...
Just about the most promising American Communist who has made good in the Soviet Union is famed Stepan Semenovich Dybets. After doughty apprenticeship in the I. W. W. he was called from a Hoboken dockyard to Russia in the early days of the revolution, devoted himself tirelessly to instructing comrades in "American technique." Soon he became a Soviet citizen, presently returned to tour U. S. industrial centres and buy, for the U. S. S. R. a total of more than $30,000,000 worth of automotive machinery, plans, parts, cars and tractors. Today the main streets of Moscow are just...
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