Word: centralize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bleak Existence. Switzerland's reliable Neue Zürcher Zeitung two weeks ago reported that Czechoslovakia, whose leaders have resisted liberalization more stubbornly than anyone else in Eastern Europe, is in a state comparable to "that of Poland just before the rising in Poznan." Yet Czechoslovakia, Central Europe's most prosperous nation, has long been regarded as the least revolt-minded of the satellites...
...Czech party Central Committee met just before the latest changes in Moscow, and loudly reaffirmed its unyielding (or "dogmatic") course. But this week Khrushchev is traveling to Prague. He will be accompanied by Bulganin-and Russia's Secret Police Boss Ivan Serov...
Quick Jump. Rumania, which like Czechoslovakia has been slow at reforming itself, got busy immediately. Rumania's Party Boss Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej last week fired from his Politburo two oldtime Stalinists-Minister of Education Miron Constantinescu and Central Committee Secretary Iosif Chisinevschi, long No. 2 man to Gheorghiu-Dej himself. The expulsions, announced Bucharest smugly, took place at a Rumanian party plenum which ended only 48 hours after the downfall of Molotov...
Catholic University of America's Breslau-born Anthropologist Martin Gusinde, 70, longtime friend of and leading authority on the world's pygmies. In 1934 Father Gusinde took up residence in the jungles of Central Africa in a community of Bambute pygmies about whom almost nothing was known. "From that time," says he, "I was in love with my pygmies." He decided that the Hottentots and Bushmen of South Africa are not true pygmies (they are too tall). He lived with the Aetas, pygmies of the Philippines, and the beetle-munching pygmies of North-East New Guinea...
...getting rave reviews and earning him recognition as Australia's leading painter. Nolan first heard of Ned Kelly from his grandfather, a fourth-generation Australian and retired policeman. Years later, when Nolan began painting the wild landscapes of Victoria and New South Wales, the legends became the central images of his work...