Word: vasilievich
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...important repertory group, the In dependent Theater, decides to produce Maxudov's novel as a play. All goes well until the great director Ivan Vasilievich-an obvious takeoff on Stanislavsky-gets hold of the script. He is an autocratic dramacide whose ears reject all utterances not made by himself. He has a few suggestions for Maxudov's play: the hero must be stabbed, not shot; the sister must be rewritten as a mother, and so on. Maxudov refuses to make the changes and sadly returns to the Shipping Gazette...
...Vasily Vasilievich Tarasov, 36, a blond, stubby correspondent for Izvestia. Canada accredited Tarasov after an urgent request that came straight from the Kremlin. After depositing his wife and young daughter in a modest apartment in Ottawa's Sandy Hill district, Tarasov scraped up an acquaintance with a minor government functionary...
Died. Aleksandr Vasilievich Topchiev, 55, chemist credited with a major role in developing the liquid rocket fuels that enabled the Soviets to build their huge space vehicles; of a heart attack; in Moscow. Topchiev was a frequent visitor to the Pugwash conferences staged in Nova Scotia by Russophile Industrialist Cyrus Eaton, where the chemist enjoyed preaching that science is above national politics. But he had a pragmatic side: in 1958, a fellow Russian remarked that what he feared most was an accidental and irresponsible attack on Russia by the U.S., and Topchiev grinned back: "What I fear most is responsible...