Word: 21st
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...Communist Party's 21st Congress in Moscow last week, Nikita Khrushchev pleaded for a "thaw" in the cold war based upon mutual good faith. The evidence of good faith, by his standards, was his invitation to President Eisenhower to visit the U.S.S.R. The evidence of his true intent was his attack on U.S. leaders as "merchants of death," his warning to U.S. allies that they are making their countries potential Russian targets by harboring U.S. bases. The point was made doubly clear by the boast of Defense Minister Rodion Malinovsky (see FOREIGN NEWS) that U.S.S.R. missiles could strike anywhere...
Midway through the opening session of the 21st Communist Party Congress, the January sun broke through Moscow's leaden overcast. Bright rays streamed through the four-story windows of the Great Kremlin Hall and lit up the towering, 20-ft. statue of Lenin behind the platform and the short, round, balding figure at the speaker's stand below. "See!" cried Nikita Khrushchev, a talented ad-libber, thrusting aside his 46,000-word text. "Even the sun favors us. Nature smiles on the seven-year plan...
...bathing suit.) In a hall adjoining St. Paul's, before 20 surprised cardinals assembled to celebrate the 1,900th anniversary of the Epistle to the Romans, the Pope announced what may well be the most important 20th century landmark in the history of the Roman Catholic Church; the 21st Ecumenical Council, which will probably meet...
...evenings, while their instructor darned his socks, Hokkaido's students heard uplifting tales of the Civil War. Clark, who ended the war as a colonel with the 21st Massachusetts Volunteers, would tell his awed audience: "At the battle of Chantilly, Virginia, on Sept. 1, 1862, I was surrounded by Confederates and was called on to surrender. Bullets whistled overhead; my uniform was torn to pieces. Gentlemen, an American never surrenders. But I managed to retire, and returned to the Union forces unharmed." When the fiery Clark left for Massachusetts, he gave his students a ringing injunction: "Boys, be ambitious...
Mirrored in the watchful faces of the gathering Communist clan was the realization that the 21st Party Congress could well prove as momentous as the 20th Congress three years ago. at which Khrushchev tearfully and historically denounced Stalin. For weeks past, ominous hints have been gathering that Khrushchev might use the occasion to deal a final blow to his disgraced foes -the "antiparty group" composed of Malenkov, Bulganin. Molotov, Shepilov and Kaganovich. In the usual Communist technique, a crime has to be found to match the punishment, and Khrushchev may well blame the U.S.S.R.'s prime economic problem...