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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long hours Nikita Khrushchev boasted of the past and future achievements of the U.S.S.R. In the next five to seven years, he declared, Soviet industry would "fully satisfy . . . footwear and fabric requirements." In ten or twelve years there would be an end to Russia's acute housing shortage. Best of all, "the Soviet Union in the next 15 years can not only catch up with the U.S. in the production of basic items but also outstrip it." Some Khrushchev estimates of Russia's 1972 production: steel, 110 to 132 million tons; oil, 2.4 to 2.7 billion barrels; coal...
...inflationary blaze in Latin America began about a decade ago with a small, warm glow, fed by the best of intentions: to match the standards of the prosperous, industrialized nations of the world, to live the full, good life. The specific objectives varied by nations-large public works, social welfare schemes, high wages, more leisure for workers, local rather than foreign development of national resources -all adding up to what economists call "the revolution of expectations." But expectations outran means; relatively backward economies could not supply the standards of fully developed states. Strained for the means, nations turned to their...
...mood piece, The Bend in the Road nonetheless offered some good acting and a grown-up theme: how an elderly minister and his wife adjust to the prospect of sitting out the rest of their lives. Onetime Glamour Boy Franchot Tone, 51, donned whiskers and did his husky-voiced best to play a spry octogenarian fighting the years. Cathleen Nesbitt was fine as his gentle wife. But Playwright John Vlahos never crystallized in a dramatic moment just why the minister surrendered to a tranquil life and moved off to a home for the aged where his friends "sit like potted...
...Germany's best-known products, theology, lately has not given much aid and comfort to the West. The neutralism of Karl Barth, with its plague-on-both-your-houses detachment from the struggle between Communism and the free world, dominates such influential German clergymen as Pastor Niemoller, such prominent theologians as Bonn University's Professors Helmut Gollwitzer and Hans-Joachim Iwand. Last week Hamburg University students jampacked their biggest lecture hall to listen to a very different kind of theologian...
...newspapers, whose feature editors sometimes treat the dog story as the newsman's best friend, got their teeth last week into the shaggiest saga of all time. Cracked a city-room wit as Sputnik 11 hove into the headlines: "It's the first time a dog story made eight-column streamers on every front page in the country." The press gave full coverage to the challenging aspects of the Russian feat. But, in a spree of Muttnik jokes and doggerel, wry puns and photographic gags, it also served up laughter to a nation big enough to chuckle over...