Word: ades
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...City is the new Communications and Public Works building, not so much because of its great glass and steel bulk as because of a series of brilliant mosaics which run like a bright tapestry over vast expanses of the exterior walls. On the building's north façade the mosaics soar to a ten-story climax where a great mural in reds, yellows and greens covers 4,800 sq. ft. In the center is a figure symbolizing La Patria, a woman dressed in Indian costume; above her is a Mexican eagle flanked by representations of Revolutionist Emiliano Zapata...
Underneath his Li'l Abner façade, he is a shrewd businessman. His official tournament earnings over the years amount to $250,000. Local matches and exhibitions (at a flat fee of $1,250 per exhibition) have probably doubled his take...
...danger was that the monolithic Communist façade would be taken for the Communist reality. Everybody knows the strains and weaknesses of France, the indecisions and diversions in Washington: everybody hears of injustice in a county seat. But who was falsely accused last week in Omsk (pop. 281,000)? What scandals could the newspapers print, if they dared, in Shenyang (nee Mukden)? Over one-fourth the earth's surface was dark silence, broken only by the persistent loudspeaker proclaiming the solidarity and monolithic will of the leadership. But if the solidarity was there, it need not be proclaimed...
...paid he was repaid in splendor, but not in comfort. Even his wife's room was icy in winter, broiling in summer, and the King would not allow her to put a shutter on her window "because it would mar the external symmetry of the iaçade...
East Germany's Communist "sovereignty" will be equally unreal. The East German government, cracked a British Foreign Office man, "will now be completely free to follow the directives it receives from Moscow." Washington called the Soviet maneuver a "sheer façade"; Bonn termed it "a booby trap." Yet for all its patent falseness, the Soviet move was not to be quipped away. In a week when pique and punctilio made a tragicomic opera of Western efforts to enlist West German arms (see below), the Kremlin was boldly reaching out on three fronts-military, diplomatic and psychological...