Copyright 2008 The New York Sun Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:19:25 -0400 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Articles from the Travel Section of The New York Sun. http://www2.nysun.com/section/18 istoll@nysun.com (Ira Stoll) webmaster@nysun.com en-us STEPHEN MILLER http://www2.nysun.com/article/74054 Wed, 2 Apr 2008 00:25:52 EST Nikolai Baibakov, who died Monday in Moscow at 98, oversaw the Soviet oil industry during World War II. Later, as head of Gosplan, the Soviet economic planning commission from 1965–85, he was in charge of producing the five-year plans that set the agenda for the nation's economic output. The news agency ITAR-Tass called him "the last of Stalin's narkoms," as the nation's commissars were called. In 1942, as Hitler turned south to lunge for the USSR's oil fields in the Caucuses, Stalin summoned...