Word: begin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, as Khrushchev alighted from his plane to begin a ten-day visit to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the founding of Poland's people's republic, he warmly bussed Gomulka on both cheeks. "Dear Comrade . . ." his airport speech began, and it ended with, "Long live the eternal, unbreakable Soviet-Polish friendship!" Gomulka was just as unctuous, praised Khrushchev as "the sincere friend of the Polish people," a "wise, distinguished...
...three, who respectively 1) guarantee Parliament against abuse by government officials, 2) guarantee Parliament against abuse by the military, 3) guarantee the King against abuse by officials. All three are obliged by law to investigate every complaint of every citizen, to ensure freedom of the press, and to begin prosecution of any official who acts wrongly or neglects his duty...
...model year-unless a supplier of some critical component has miscalculated and runs out of steel. Chrysler, which will start producing its 1960 models in mid-August, has a big enough stockpile to roll through mid-November. Ford (which makes 40% of its own steel) and General Motors will begin their 1960 runs about Sept. i, have enough steel...
...Summer Snow ($1.75), can easily cost up to $70 with drinks and tips. Seasonal foods and delicacies from all over the world are rushed to the restaurant by plane; its $100,000 wine cellar holds 15,000 bottles. If a visitor can not wait for the fun to begin, he can pluck a free sausage off a small tree as he takes his seat...
...dazzling indictment of Marxism as the opiate of the masses. An earlier product of his apostasy is Anatomy of a Moral, 18 casual essays written for two of Belgrade's leading journals when Djilas was still the party's Red-haired boy. The speculations begin innocently enough: a yawningly orthodor insistence that Yugoslavia must wiggle between the traps of Stalinist "bureaucratism" and "decadent" Western capitalism. But as the articles progress. Djilas begins to weaken in the marrow of his own faith; complaint turns to critique as he demands such subversive luxuries as free speech and free elections, equality...