Word: sovietizers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...burly Sergei Vinogradov was quick to learn after he first arrived in Paris back in 1953, life can be lonely for the Soviet ambassador to a Western capital-even when that capital has a solid Communist minority, ranging from tough factory hands to the mandarins of the Left Bank. In 1953, Vinogradov got a deliberately perfunctory greeting from Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, and some newsmen even ungenerously commented on the new ambassador's baggy appearance. But soon Paris began to take a second look...
Dinner guests at the Soviet embassy spread the word that the cuisine and cellar were excellent. Mme. Vinogradov, an amateur painter herself, began encouraging young French artists to drop around, even abstractionists, whose decadent works would never find favor in Moscow. And soon columnists were speculating on which London tailor the ambassador might be patronizing...
...buddy of one of France's richest capitalists, Marcel Boussac, lunched with Novelist Françoise Sagan, shot pheasant on the great Alsace estate of Socialite Jean de Beaumont. Recently, watching him move familiarly among the swarms of film stars, writers, ministers, generals, and artists at the Soviet embassy, Millionaire Boussac archly remarked: "There goes France's most fashionable ambassador...
...Four top Soviet spacemen visited the Iowa City laboratory of Professor James A. Van Allen, discoverer of Van Allen radiation. Addressing an audience of scientists and Iowa students, Academician Leonid I. Sedov gave a detailed report on the trajectories of Soviet moon shots. In response to questioning, he said that the Russians also had rocket failures. He denied rumors that they have put a man in space and said that they will not even try until three conditions exist: that the man will be safe in space, will return to earth safely, and will be able to do tasks beyond...
Word from the Moon. The Russians seemed eager to be cooperative and, except when military matters were touched on, surprisingly willing to describe Soviet discoveries in space rocketry. At a Washington meeting of the American Rocket Society, Academician Anatoly A. Blagonravov told in precise scientific terms how Lunik III was oriented by small gas jets to take its famous pictures of the far side of the moon (TIME, Nov. 9). Physicist Valerian I. Krasovsky gave a summary of scientific information that Soviet space shots have gathered so far. The Russians also showed a 25-minute movie of the behavior...