Word: 50th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Government analysts point out that the Soviet growth figures may be slightly inflated in order to create a festive atmosphere for the 50th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. Furthermore, the Russians often include in their output figures the value of the semi-finished goods imported and only finished in Soviet factories. The Washington economists also point out that to boost the statistics this year the Kremlin is concentrating on completing plants already started - and getting them into production - rather than on new factories to redound to the economy's benefit later...
...long-neglected Russian consumer is coming in for a larger slice of the new and bigger economic pie. A Russian who has the money no longer has to wait for weeks to buy a TV set or a simple household convenience such as a refrigerator. In anticipation of 50th-anniversary celebrations planned for this fall, shops in the major cities are filled with colorful merchandise of fair to high quality. The regime is even doing something for those millions of Russians who have never known the luxury of dry cleaning: the government has grandly announced that the number...
...popular target for tourists. In 1956, fewer than 500,000 foreigners were adventurous enough to travel through the U.S.S.R.-one-eighth the number that visited France the same year-and about three-quarters of them were from the Communist countries of Eastern Eu rope. This year, which marks the 50th anniversary of the Revolution, Russia expects more than 1,500,000 tourists. At least half of them will be dutiful European Communists. But there will be many French and British, a few Arabs and Africans, and about 25,000 Americans (up from 2,000 a decade...
...above Moscow, flights of Soviet jets in tight formation spelled out the word Lenin and the arabic numeral 50 to mark the 50th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. As Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev and Premier Aleksei Kosygin looked on from an airport on the city's outskirts, the Soviet military last week put on a rare demonstration of new military aircraft; the last such display was six years ago. To Western observers, the Moscow show also spelled out something else: a new direction in Soviet airpower...
Russia's intellectuals-and many of their colleagues in Eastern Europe-are squirming more restlessly than ever under the weight of Communist orthodoxy, but they see a subtle opportunity to lessen the burden in 1967. Because it is the 50th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, they figure that Communist authorities will take pains to avoid an open clash with the intellectual community, and may even be moved to lift some restrictions on their freedom. Whether or not their hunch is right, the intellectuals have been making some unusually outspoken protests against repressive government policies, particularly in literature...