Word: valerianate
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...ditched overnight, the President and his staff were fired. Adventurist Rukhadze's Ministry of State Security-the agency most at fault for accusing the "innocents" and showing up Beria-was merged with Interior under a new Beria protege: Vladimir G. Dekanozov. To head the government, Beria chose Valerian Bakradze, who was removed as Premier in the purges of '37; Bakradze proved his loyalty by restoring the three Beria men purged by Stalin last year-Baramiya, Zodelava and Rapava. "They were always loyal to Soviet society," said Bakradze, and gave them jobs in his cabinet...
...series of secret, informal meetings, delegates of the Big Five had considered -among others-the name of Erik Boheman, Sweden's Ambassador to the U.S. Boheman said that he did not want the job, but his name had been in the air just long enough for Soviet Delegate Valerian Zorin to hint that perhaps Russia might accept a Swede in order to get rid of Norway's Trygve Lie. French Delegate Henri Hoppenot took the cue, submitted the name of Dag Hammarskjöld (see box). So little known was he that State Department officials had to scurry...
...schizophrenic subject, they were able to get sharply defined brain waves of his sense of smell, indicating the intensity of the smell when they gave him a whiff of tincture of valerian. To their surprise, they found that whereas most sensory perceptions are transmitted by a frequency-modulation system, the sense of smell appears to work by amplitude modulation. In the oceans of the mind, it seems, there are both hidden waves and different types of current...
...Rome, the death of Cardinal-designate Carlo Agostini, Patriarch of Venice (see MILESTONES), cut the list to 23. The following day, Pope Pius XII named another man. The new nominee, whose confirmation will help bring the College of Cardinals to its full strength of 70: India's Valerian Gracias, 52, Archbishop of Bombay...
...Malik's place will be taken by a man who promises to be no better: Valerian Aleksandrovich Zorin, 50, who earned his greatest diplomatic laurels as Soviet Ambassador to Prague from 1945 to 1947. U.S. Intelligence men credit him with supervising the Communist seizure of Czechoslovakia. For his services, he was awarded the Czech Order of the White Lion. U.S. diplomats remember him principally for his appearance at a 1947 session of the United Nations' Economic Commission for Europe, where he stubbornly opposed every American plan to bring aid to war-devastated areas...