Word: svetlana
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...Svetlana Iosifovna Stalina was always the apple of her father's eye-but what an eye it was! Her dad was Iosif Stalin, and Svetlana was among the very few to whom he ever showed any real tenderness. In notes to her, full of fatherly affection, Stalin signed himself "Papochka" (little daddy). Even though he objected to her choice of a husband in 1951, the Soviet dictator staged a $500,000 czarist-style marriage feast that went on for two weeks, and was kept afloat by gallons of pink Crimean champagne, sweet Armenian brandy and vodka. But, after Stalin...
LONDON PALLADIUM SHOW (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Fess Parker is host to some British vaudevillians as well as Dancers Rudolf Nureyev and Svetlana Beriosova of the Royal Ballet...
...Guinea, once regarded as a foothold of Soviet penetration of Africa, Russia's stock fell to a new low with L'affaire Svetlana. It had to do with a blonde Russian exchange teacher named Svetlana Ushakova. Against embassy instructions, she persisted in making friends with the natives, and ignored orders that she return to Russia. Fortnight ago, she was hustled to a Moscow-bound plane, only to be rescued by the Guineans themselves. On a second vain attempt to get Svetlana to Moscow, Russia's Ambassador to Guinea himself tried to pass her off as the aircraft...
...Stalin's elder son. Yakov Dzhugashvili, reportedly died in a German concentration camp during World War II. He was the only child of Stalin's first wife. Vasily and a sister, Svetlana, believed now living in Moscow, were the children of the dictator's second wife, Nadezhda Allilueva, whom Stalin shot to death inside their Kremlin apartment in 1932 during a fit of rage...
...child ran away with a "flashily dressed, middleaged" Middle Eastern diplomat. Two and a half years later. Komsomolskaya Pravda reported, a pathetic figure stood begging forgiveness on her father's doorstep. How she had paid for her folly! Her husband, it turned out, already had one wife, and Svetlana had been little more than a brutalized, half-starved harem slave, forced to wait on wife No. 1 and her three children. This, said Komsomolskaya Pravda, was the awful fate awaiting those "frivolous girls who consider they are born only for amusement and recklessly chase after foreign libertines...