Word: svyatoslav
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...West; it has sold the licensing rights for a continuous casting method to France's Schneider Steel Co. and to the U.S. Casting Corp. In recent years touring Soviet ballet and concert artists have brought home $1,500,000 from Britain alone, where Violinist David Oistrakh, Pianist Svyatoslav Richter and others command richer fees than U.S. artists. As well, every Communist nation has pawnshops known as "commission houses," which buy heirlooms from local people for soft Red money and sell them to visiting Westerners with an eye for china, jewelry or rare first editions...