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...romanticism and his bright young mannerisms as a cinematographer. Nevertheless, Chukhrai emerges in this picture as an exuberantly gifted moviemaker. The best of his camera work has force and a creative gaiety. He makes inspired use of sound, silence, rhythm, and a wonderfully witty and expressive score composed by Mikhail Siv. He casts and directs his players faultlessly-as the legless soldier, Actor Urbanski is massively impressive...
...editor of Moscow's Komsomolskaya Pravda (Truth of Communist Youth, or "Pravda Jr.") called two reporters into his office. Said he: "Set all your current work aside and take an assignment into the 21st century." So the reporters, Sergei Gushchev and Mikhail Vasiliev, interviewed 29 Soviet scientists and wrote a Communist book, obviously meant as a major Soviet showcase: Russian Science in the 21st Century. Now published in the U.S. by McGraw-Hill, the book offers a glimpse at the little-known world of Soviet science. And an unexciting world it seems...
...Cranes are Flying describes the shattering effect of war in highly personal terms. Director Mikhail Kalatozov presents us with a young couple deeply in love. There is no making-out on the screen, Boris and Veronica exchange no profound glances of desire; in fact there are no cinematic cliches which we are supposed to translate as meaning Love. But there is an affection between these people that is simply expressed, and simple to comprehend. And then there is war, and Boris is a volunteer...
...created in Moscow a mammoth African research center headed by the Soviet Union's top African expert, Professor Ivan Potekhin. Top Soviet diplomatic talent was rushed to Africa, including Middle East Ace Daniel Solod, who is Moscow's Ambassador to Guinea, and hard-driving Ambassador to Congo Mikhail Yakovlev, whose clever footwork has gained him seemingly unrestricted access to Patrice Lumumba's office. Soviet diplomats have cleared the way for such projects as the African student scheme under which, last week, arrangements were made to send 150 Congolese youths to Moscow's new Friendship University...
...mistake by the Russians." To Prosecutor Rudenko, the trial "unmasked completely the criminal aggressive actions of the U.S. ruling quarters" and the "savage, man-hating ethics of Allen Dulles & Co., placing the dollar, this yellow devil, higher than human life." By way of defense, Powers' court-appointed attorney. Mikhail Grinev, who makes a good living losing cases he is expected to. tried to outdo the prosecution in attacking the U.S. Powers, he said, "should be joined in the dock by his masters, who attend this trial invisibly." Grinev in friendly fashion had told Powers' parents that "social factors...