Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Radical Socialist Party, a gourmet and bon vivant, Herriot was for 52 years mayor of Lyon, five times minister, and three times Premier of France. An inveterate joiner (some 300 organizations), Herriot was so outraged by the Russian rape of Hungary that he resigned from the Franco-Soviet Friendship Society-and when he asked the name of the society's president, to address his resignation to, he discovered it was himself...
Painting Manhattan a mild pink, with five other Soviet musicians, Russia's famed Composer Dmitry Shostakovich mustered a rare smile when meeting...
...story Palace of Science, showpiece of Moscow State University, catches the visitor's eye* as the Eiffel Tower does in Paris. A relic of Stalin's appetite for Victorian skyscrapers, it comes off as just what he intended: the biggest wedding cake in the store window of Soviet education. Next year five U.S. professors will discover what such education means. Last week Columbia University began looking for volunteers to teach at Moscow University in the first formal professorial exchange between the two countries. What are they...
...dreary Russia, Moscow University (enrollment: 27,000) is one of the few visible convincers that a primitive nation is out to conquer space. Among its 420 full professors, it boasts 33 members of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Famed for aerodynamics and mathematics, it relegates the humanities to the old university (founded in 1755) in downtown Moscow. Its real heart is the new (1953) Palace of Science, a vast complex of 37 buildings that sprawl atop the suburban Lenin Hills on the site of what-ten years ago-was a peasant village...
...Russian press has long held the distinction of being the world's dullest-a distinction in which Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, one Communist who believes that party pills go down best with a little sugar, takes scant pleasure. No sooner had he taken over in the Kremlin than Khrushchev began trying to brighten up Soviet journalism: dull writing, he warned a conference of editors six years ago, "must be driven from the newspaper page." To do the driving, Khrushchev employed an able newsman: apple-cheeked Aleksei I. Adzhubei, now 35, who also happens...