Word: centralize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jews) and are discouraged from their own cultural identity. In recent months the world Jewish press has been full of anxious debate about the changing Soviet attitude toward Jews. Last February a British Communist, Professor Hyman Levy, charged that "today there is not a single Jew in the Central Committee, and indeed no Jew in any high position." Last month French Journalist Serge Groussard asked Khrushchev about reports that even in Stalin's old Jewish colony of Birobidzhan in eastern
...question of whether to go on testing nuclear weapons, thousands of U.S. Protestant churchmen and churchwomen lined up last week on the stop-the-tests side. Items: ¶A widely assorted 140 Protestant clergymen and educators, including nine bishops, signed an appeal to all Christians to back up the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches in its declaration against testing (TIME, Aug. 12). Among the signers: Methodist Bishops Charles W. Brashares of Chicago, Eugene M. Frank of St. Louis and John Wesley Lord of Boston; the Right Rev. W. Appleton Lawrence, retired Episcopal Bishop of Western Massachusetts; Presbyterian...
...Could antimatter possibly have been involved? If so, says Wyatt, "no traces of the meteors would remain, due to the annihilation process." Best example is the huge meteor that blazed over southern Russia on the morning of June 30, 1908. Minutes later it crashed in the forest wastes of central Siberia near the Stony Tunguska River, exploding with a force roughly equivalent to that of a hydrogen bomb...
Railroaders found the program far short of what they need to prevent what Pennsylvania President James M. Symes calls "the collapse of some railroads." Last week, as further evidence of their dire straits, the New York Central showed a first-quarter loss of $17.6 million, the Pennsylvania lost $14.9 million. Even railmen still in the black were disappointed, believing that the need is for ways to increase earning power. "The real problem," said Ben Heineman. chairman of the Chicago & North Western, "is one of allowing us to attain a position where we can pay back the loans...
...state in which economics is second to politics. Russia can overbid for raw materials, ignore market prices to compete, even take heavy losses to win friends. Says Central Intelligence