Word: capitalistically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...told an Italian newsman last April that U.S. athletes are the "best in the world" and will win this summer's Olympics in Melbourne, he has not again run or prophesied on the sunnier side of the Iron Curtain. Last week the Czech Ministry of Sports announced that capitalist-praising Zatopek will not compete again until he recovers from a sprained ankle (a fortnight ago, Iron-Man Zatopek ran a poor fifth in a 5,000-meter race in Prague). The mystery, however, was not solved by one bad showing of the Communists' greatest Olympics record-smasher...
...parts of the world, jazz is a kind of Esperanto to the young generation from 15 to 25, and even countries with boiling anti-American prejudices enjoy and respond to it. In Communist-dominated centers, jazz was a more or less secret pleasure for years -the commissars labeled it capitalist depravity-but it is now permitted openly and apparently without prejudice...
...verge of closing, and a fifth announced that it would drop four of its five editions. Total circulation affected: 165,000. The reason was given as the "crushing charges that have been levied against the democratic press." Translation: rising expenses have put the Communist papers into an old-fashioned capitalist cost squeeze, aggravated by reader disillusionment over destalinization. Since 1950, France's 15 Communist dailies (circ. 1,250,000) have shrunk to nine (circ...
Tata & Kariba. Both India's Damodar Valley and Mexico's Tecuala owe their new prosperity to that most capitalistic of all capitalist archetypes: the banker. He is Eugene Black, president of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development-generally known as the World Bank. It was the World Bank that lent Mexico $24 million to help bring power to Tecuala and other forgotten towns. To India it lent $38 million for its Damodar project, and from both nations President Black expects to get every nickel back-with interest...
...conversation through interpreters was dragging badly when Tito, rotundly resplendent in his dress uniform, asked Black if he might try one of the banker's fancy Corona Corona cigars. After the Yugoslav dictator started to puff away, Black looked at him and drawled: "Now you look like a capitalist." Tito roared, and everyone relaxed...