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There was the Intourist guide in Kiev, giving me a steely grin of mock solicitude a few minutes after we met and murmuring: "And do you think Senator McCarthy will really be able to prove your last President was a traitor secretly helping...
Bayreuth had not dared do Tannhäuser since Toscanini's unforgettable version 24 years ago. But brothers Wieland and Wolfgang, who will dare anything, decided the old Venusberg needed some drastic new landscaping. They hired fast-rising, Kiev-born Conductor Igor Markevitch, who had never done Wagnerian opera before, then replaced him with Germany's Joseph Keilberth. "I was not aware that anybody here was interested in tempo," huffed Markevitch at one point. "All they talk about is lighting"-and no wonder, for Director Wieland Wagner's new staging relies mainly on light effects. When...
Moscow, Idaho, has the innocuous call letters of KRPL, but Glendale, Calif, strikes a Ukrainian note with station KIEV. Stations KORN and KOB are in South Dakota and New Mexico, but corn-fed Iowa gets into the act with Mason City's station KRIB, while Texas pays tribute to its cattle with station KINE...
April: Pravda will announce that Vyaslav Molotov has been arrested as an "enemy of the state." Enthusiastic spontaneous demonstrations in the Kiev sector will follow. After a suitable period, Molotov will confess to having been in the pay of the German General Staff since he negotiated the non-aggression pact of 1939. He will admit having suggested the Marshall Plan and NATO to Western diplomats. The Chicago Tribune will comment on the fakery of the purge, right above an editorial in which Truman and Acheson are blamed for China's loss. Radcliffe's "Drumbeats and Song" will turn...
...Frenchman cried. Sikorsky modified the question. "Which is the least bad?" The Frenchman meditated and answered: "The one with the smallest number of parts, for the parts are all bad, too." Sikorsky forthwith bought a 25-h.p., three-cylinder Anzani engine, took it back to Kiev, and began building a flying machine himself in his father's backyard summerhouse. It was a rude helicopter. It snorted, flapped, and vibrated, but stayed stubbornly on the ground. To Sikorsky's delight, however, it lifted 357 Ibs., only 100 Ibs. less than its own weight, when attached to a scale...