Word: bolshevik
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there a danger that the spectacle of another Kremlin power struggle would mar the 40th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution? Nikita Khrushchev took care of it by sending a dog soaring into space with a whoosh that drowned out all other noises. With every beep from Sputnik II the world got a stark reminder of Russia's strength. If they could send 1,120.8 Ibs. (53 times the weight of the proposed U.S. satellite) more than 1,000 miles into space, the Soviets certainly had a rocket capable of reaching any point on earth...
MOSCOW, Nov. 6--Nikita Khrushchev and Mao Tse--tung made a double-barreled attack today on the United States, gibing at its lag on launching Sputniks and accusing it of plotting trouble all over the world. Khrushchev and Mao spoke here in ceremonies marking the 40th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution...
...Vogue. T.T., a sort of Bolshevik Babbitt with a strain of a Good Soldier Schweik of the Class War, is the central figure in a series of events which would seem like fantasy were not each episode matched by a solemn quotation from Soviet pronouncements. By Soviet standards, T.T. is highly fortunate-he has a television set, a Pobeda automobile, a plump stomach and a talented teen-age daughter named Simochka. Yet there comes the dreadful day when it is reported from Simochka's university that she has been overheard making anti-party statements. This is serious business-only...
...confidently pushed up. HOC IE CIIVTHHKA−I VHA (After Sputnik, the moon), the Russians proclaim, hinting that an unmanned rocket try at the moon might be planned from a Soviet launching site in the near future, perhaps to coincide with the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution on Nov.7...
...Communist world, which celebrates by the numbers, fall is a festive season. But between observance of the October (1949) Communist victory in China and the 40th anniversary of the Russian Bolshevik Revolution in November, the Reds this year must pause to mark a new anniversary. The date is Oct. 23, and it is no Red-letter day. On that day last year Hungary's freedom rebellion broke...