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...pulled away from the Soviet legation in Tel Aviv last week, threaded its way through the stony Judean hills to Jerusalem, and rolled to a stop before a wide white building with green onion domes. Out of the car and into the incense-filled Russian Orthodox Church filed Pavel Ivanovich Ershov, Soviet minister to Israel, and some of his top staff aides. The churchgoing Communists were adding some new wrinkles to an old plot they had inherited from the czars...
Indifferent to conventional religious faiths, she was seeking consolation and cure in the occult doctrines of a magnetic Georgian mystic named George Ivanovich Gurdjieff,-when death cut all her questions short on Jan. 9, 1923. Bogey had Tig's tombstone inscribed with a line from Shakespeare's Henry IV. It was a line which she had always loved and sometimes lived by: "But I tell you, my lord fool, out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety...
Died. Sergei Ivanovich Vavilov, 60, leading Soviet physicist and propagandist, president since 1945 of the U.S.S.R.'s Academy of Sciences, an organizer of the Society for the Dissemination of Political and Scientific Knowledge; of unknown causes; in Moscow...
Heading up the honorary pallbearers last week at the funeral of Soviet Marshal Fedor Ivanovich Tolbukhin (see MILESTONES) was a figure that had been out of public sight for five months. Vyacheslav Molotov, variously rumored to be ill, busy at a secret job or out of favor, was obviously still No. 2 man in the U.S.S.R. With Stalin absent he had the place of honor among the mourners. Close by him was pudgy Georgi Malenkov, confirming by his position that in the U.S.S.R. hierarchy he had risen...
Died. Fedor Ivanovich Tolbukhin, 55, marshal of the Soviet Union, one of the defenders of Stalingrad; after long illness; in Moscow. Tolbukhin's army broke through the German lines in November 1942, completed encirclement of Paulus' German Sixth Army, later helped drive the enemy out of the southern Ukraine and the Balkans...