Word: account
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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RUSSIA AND HISTORY'S TURNING POINT, by Alexander Kerensky. An intriguing though somewhat sketchy eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution as seen by its first Prime Minister...
...TIME's patronizing account of Appalachia [Nov. 5] and its smug assumption that it is desirable to "transform the mountaineer into a middle-class American" makes my blood boil. One of the great glories of America is the wide diversity of people to be found within its borders. Homogenizing our population is deadening our culture as surely as leveling the Rocky Mountains and the Grand Canyon would ruin our scenery...
...authors are Soviet Agent Gordon Lonsdale, whose account of his 20 years in the upper echelons of the British government is now available in Europe under the title Spy, and Oleg Vladimirovich Penkovsky, executed by the Russians in 1963 after 16 months of spying for the CIA and Britain's M.I.5, whose fuddled and footnoted journal is due this month under the title The Penkovsky Papers...
...ownership of a small or medium-sized machine. The Massachusetts In stitute of Technology, one of the pioneers in time sharing, now has 400 users for its IBM 7094 computer, has served scientists as far away as Nor way and Argentina. Experts predict that by 1970 time sharing will account for at least half of an estimated $5 billion computer business, will be used as widely and easily as the telephone switchboard...
...first hint of a more conciliatory French view came at the annual meeting of the IMF in October, when France's finance minister Valery Giscard d'Estaing said that it was at least "conceivable" that a distribution of additional reserve assets could take into account "other criteria" besides gold holdings...