Word: viktor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ASTRONOMY. Behind, but determined to catch up. The new Biurakan Observatory in Armenia has one of the world's largest telescopes, and one of the world's finest libraries in the field. The observatory's head: Viktor Ambartsumian, the first Soviet scientist since World War II to become a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences...
Died. Rudolf Viktor Heberlein, 57, automation-minded board chairman of his family-owned Swiss textile plant, chairman of Swissair's board of directors, who arranged for transportation of 1,253 U.N. troops to Egypt during the November 1956 crisis without disrupting regular schedules; of a heart attack; in Wattwil, Switzerland...
...charges against the Zhdanovites. Within a year after Beria's death, Malenkov's power had so declined that Khrushchev or his henchmen were able to push through the first public mention of the case in the U.S.S.R. Announcing the execution of former Minister of State Security Viktor Abakumov in December 1954, Izvestia reported: "Abakumov framed the so-called Leningrad Case...
...clearer: the accused had had a hand in the famous "Leningrad Case." This was a conspiracy that had cost the life of Politburocrat Nikolai Voznesensky, Soviet Russia's chief economic planner, in 1948-49 (during Stalin's reign). After Khrushchev became First Party Secretary, Secret Police Boss Viktor Abakumov and three subordinates were executed in December 1954 for their role in it. Said Khrushchev menacingly last week: "Malenkov, who was one of the chief organizers of the so-called Leningrad Case, simply was afraid to come to you here in Leningrad." If Malenkov had not actually been afraid...
...Soviets finally broke the silence. Raoul Wallenberg, Soviet officials told the Swedish government, died of a heart attack in Lubianka prison on July 17, 1947, nearly ten years ago. His arrest and detention, they said, were undoubtedly the result of "the criminal activities" of then State Security Chief Viktor Abakumov, who was executed in 1954 for "crimes against Soviet laws" as an accomplice of his boss, Lavrenty Beria. There was, the Russians said, a report to Abakumov from Colonel A. L. Smoltsov, chief of the Lubianka medical service, certifying Wallenberg's death, and adding that the body had been...