Word: vladimir
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Princeton laboratory Dr. Vladimir K. Zworykin, R.C.A.'s great electronics inventor, who pioneered the TV tube, worried about this phenomenon. What U.S. driving needs, he concluded, is some masterful device to take it away from the drivers. After years of work, Dr. Zworykin announced last week that he had designed an electronic system to do just that...
...Ousted in Georgia: Internal Affairs (MVD) Minister Vladimir Dekanazov, put in the job by Beria after Stalin's death, onetime Ambassador to Germany (1940-41). The purge in Beria's native Georgia was made by General Aleksei Antonov, a wartime army chief of staff...
...Soviet Foreign Ministry moved to meet the new situation by an ingathering of ambassadors. From Washington came Georgy N. Zarubin, from London Jacob A. Malik, from Paris Alexei P. Pavlov, from Berlin Vladimir S. Semenov. At week's end they were in conference with Deputy Premier Molotov and other Soviet leaders. Whatever counteroffensive they worked out, it would be for the defense of Moscow, and the fighting as tough as the battles of Borodino...
...occupation boss, or "supreme commissar," Moscow appointed bald Vladimir Semenov, a personable or non-Vishinsky type of diplomat, until recently chief political adviser to Chuikov and Soviet ambassador to the East German puppet government. A polished veteran of diplomacy although he is only 50, Semenov once taught philosophy, Soviet-style. He speaks German and some English. Across the negotiating table he gives the impression of at least comprehending points of view other than...
...Georgia in his own way. The old "national" constitution was 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...