Word: centrality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wall can keep East Germans from moving West, but it cannot prevent them from looking in that direction. Last week Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht felt obliged to order a turnabout during the party's Central Committee meeting in East Berlin...
...nearly 18 months, Prague economists and apparatchiks have been hard at work on "NEM"-a New Economic Model for the nation designed to liberate the Czech economy from the worst rigidities of Stalinist central planning and to introduce widespread Western profit incentives for factory managers. Though the plan has yet to be unveiled, last week Prague's Central Committee published a 19,000-word preamble to NEM that was remarkable in its candor about past mistakes...
...Federal Aviation Agency, which has been closely following the Navy experiments, is less enthusiastic about the new concept. Its advantages, the FAA feels, would be far outweighed by the extra cost of building the banked circular runways, burrowing under them to provide access roads to the central terminal area, and installing complex ground-control systems. Even so, the Navy report has stirred the interest of aviation officials. It may well trigger more imaginative research into an area of aeronautics that has remained relatively unchanged since the Wright brothers used the dunes at Kitty Hawk as one of the world...
...goodness, Mr. McCone!" tutted a White House guard next day. "What'll they do next-break into Edgar Hoover's house?" It was nearly that bad. While former Central Intelligence Agency Director John McCone waltzed around with his wife Ti at Washington's National Symphony Ball, somebody cracked the Shoreham Hotel's defenses upstairs, broke into the McCones' suite and seriously sabotaged Ti's jewel collection. More than $18,000 in diamonds and pearls and other baubles were gone when the ball was over, and Edgar Hoover's boys immediately jumped...
Frozen Instant. To evoke Pasternak's poetic imagery, Lean led a camera unit almost to the Arctic Circle, hired Lapland nomads to portray Siberian refugees. To record the long train trip from Moscow to the Urals that is the central odyssey of the novel, Lean went into below-zero temperatures in the northern Finnish lumber town of Joensuu, photographed the "refugees" trekking across Lake Pyhaselka, over which, during the 1940 Russian invasion of Finland, the Soviets had actually laid a winter railway...