Word: centralize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...duties. Ultimately, private property is to be utterly abolished and already the most "advanced" communes have compelled the peasants to surrender the personal garden plots they were allowed to keep when they were forced onto "cooperative farms" three years ago. (The problem of individually owned fruit trees, says the Central Committee tolerantly, can be left for settlement later...
...preoccupation with the world at large and with his diplomat's tendency to avoid sharp edges, Pope Pius often neglected the Vatican itself. He seemed to shrink from making much-needed appointments to the central machinery of the church. Result, at the time of his death: 15 vacancies in a superannuated College of Cardinals, no Secretary of State, no governor for Vatican City, no camerlengo (see The Succession). Said one of his closest advisers sadly last week: "He provided badly for his successor...
...Vatican history the two types have often alternated, and since Pius XII was a diplomat who never had a parish of his own, there may be pressure for a pastoral candidate. This may be offset by the desire of the Vatican's Curia cardinals to keep tight central control...
...central character of Playhouse go's opening show last month (TIME, Sept. 29) was a polished, elderly tyrant named Joseph Stalin, who lived in a palace called the Kremlin. His courtiers-named Beria, Malenkov, Molotov and Khrushchev-hated Stalin and hungered for his power. Together they plotted his death, and it turned out to be an easier job than they had supposed. Stalin suffered a stroke, and, as the CBS camera dollied in for the climactic closeup, Khrushchev dramatically refused...
Every afternoon last week a grey 1951 Chevrolet threaded through the streets on the edge of town, pulled up alongside the field where Stockton (junior) College's red-and-blue-jerseyed Mustangs worked out under the gentling fall sun of California's Central Valley. Out of the car stepped a trim figure in grey slacks and blue windbreaker. Under fluffy, center-parted white hair, his big, broad-browed head was thrust forward, turtle fashion. He looked old as he walked toward the cleat-chewed turf, but he shed his years like a mantle and straightened up smartly...