Word: yaroslav
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...time to be philosophical; at least no one was shooting at them. In Sarajevo, members of a student volunteer brigade goofed and joked as they worked without undue haste at shoveling snow from the center of Kosevo Stadium. Mirjan Jarovije-vic, 15, a student at the Yaroslav Cernyi technical school, took the arrival of a visitor as a splendid opportunity to lean on his shovel and sneak a smoke. He said he had been chosen for the work detail because he was so smart that he would not fall behind in school. His volunteer supervisor, Muharen Corba, 27, was smart...
...eligibles voted; out of a total of 707 delegates, 370 were Social Revolutionaries, only 775 Bolsheviks. Seventeen hours after it met, the Constituent Assembly was destroyed. Mark Vishniak, senior member of TIME'S Russian desk since 1946, was a Social Revolutionary delegate from the district of Yaroslav, and was elected Secretary of the Constituent Assembly. His retrospective account of what happened the day democracy died in Russia...
...Yaroslav Smeliakov
...best these were guesses. It was no guess that, on the face of the Sino-Soviet pact, world Communism could cheer another notable diplomatic and propaganda triumph in Asia. On the platform of Moscow's Yaroslav station just before he took the train back to Peking, China's Mao made a not unreasonable prediction: "This [treaty] will inevitably influence not only the flourishing of the great powers, China and the Soviet Union, but also the future of all mankind...
...accompanied by his more-traveled crony, Chu Teh, commander in chief of the Chinese Communist armies, who had once studied at Moscow's Eastern Toilers' Institute. At Moscow's Yaroslav station, the two Chinese visitors got one of the most distinguished receptions ever rendered to any foreign heads of state. The Moscow garrison sent a picked column of troops. Three Politburo bigwigs were present-Deputy Premiers Vyacheslav M. Molotov and Georgy M. Malenkov, Marshal Nikolai A. Bulganin-along with Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky and his deputy Andrei A. Gromyko...