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Since 1945, when he fled from Ottawa's Soviet embassy to make the first major exposure of Communist espionage in the West, Igor Gouzenko has been living undercover, with an assumed name and a 24-hour police guard. Last week the former Soviet cipher clerk was back in the limelight, the center of a swelling controversy between Canada...
...Wood-Breakers. The faint aura of unworldliness that clings to him, however, is mostly illusion; the Sikorsky imagination may soar, but he is a practical, enduring, even stubborn man. Though his colleagues call him "Uncle Igor" behind his back, nearly all United Aircraft officials call him Mr. Sikorsky to his face. His career has spanned virtually the entire history of flight...
...hived there were mostly grease-stained motorcycle or automobile racers who flew?or tried to fly?out of the sheer love of risking their necks in public. Sikorsky was a young gentleman and an embryo intellectual; his father, a physician, was famed in Russia as a psychologist, and Igor had put in three years at the Imperial Naval College in St. Petersburg, and two more at the Institute of Technology at Kiev. He was not abashed, however, as he walked through the long grass at the edge of Juvisy airfield, outside Paris, and took his first look into the temple...
...Grand." A new burden of worry assailed him as he toiled on. His father, apparently a man of inexhaustible faith, put much of his small fortune into Igor's experiments, and in the end resolutely mortgaged the family home to keep them going. Igor's sixth plane won the highest award at a Moscow aircraft exhibition in 1912. A huge manufacturing combine, the Society of Russian Baltic Railroad Car Factories, financed him, and with consummate confidence he set out to build the biggest flying machine the world had ever seen. It was "the Grand," the first four-engine transport plane...
...Czar himself came to see the aerial behemoth and presented Sikorsky with a gold watch bearing the two-headed eagle of Imperial Russia. Igor was 24, one of the world's leading'aircraft designers and a famous man. In a few years he was worth half a million dollars. During World War I he shuttled tirelessly between his factory, which built four-engine bombers, and the front, at times taking cover from showers of steel arrows which German bomber pilots dumped on Russian airdromes. Then came the Revolution. Sikorsky left Russia with one suitcase and a thin sheaf of English...