Word: yuri
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...four cosmonauts were to work together for five days on various experiments, Tass said. Then the two newcomers would return to earth early this week. They would leave behind Soyuz 26's Yuri Romanenko, 33, and Georgi Grechko, 46, to continue endurance tests and perhaps to break the U.S. astronaut record of 84 days in orbit. If all goes according to plan, the Soviets will have shown that they can keep a permanent observatory in the sky, staffed by relays of spaceships bringing up fresh supplies and personnel. By contrast, during the U.S.'s comparable Skylab missions...
Along the road to the big time, Emilia plunges into a short-lived affair with Yuri (Baryshnikov), the rakish Russian who is the crowning jewel of the company's impressive array of dancers. Yuri and Emilia consummate the relationship in one of the best scenes of The Turning Point; shot in deep blues and purples, the lovemaking is accompanied by ballet music, and appropriately enough, Emilia marks their climax with a ballet gesture, forming a graceful arch with her outstretched arms...
...Soviet press fired its sharpest salvos in years at the U.S. Izvestiya attacked U.S. policy on human rights as an "anti-Soviet hobbyhorse." Tass Commentator Yuri Kornilov said the SALT talks were threatened by tests of a neutron bomb that the U.S. announced last week and by America's "other inhuman weapons of mass annihilation." Of course, the Soviet people knew which way the wind was blowing. American High Jumper Teresa Smith, competing in a Soviet-American track meet, felt the chill in the Black Sea town of Sochi: "In Germany, we got applause even on our warmup jumps...
Four Harvard professors are among 220 European and U.S. physicists who sent a telegram to the vice president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences expressing concern over the recent jailing of Russian scientist Yuri Orlov...
...tremulous voice, Sakharov spoke of the imprisonment of his close friend and collaborator, Physicist Yuri Orlov, 52. A diminutive man with a shock of red hair, Orlov is chief of the unofficial eleven-member Helsinki monitoring committee, which keeps close watch on Soviet compliance with the human rights provisions of the 1975 Helsinki agreement. A member of the Armenian Academy of Sciences, he had devoted himself in the past year to organizing the Helsinki group in Moscow and other cities...