Word: centrals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that far, would presumably consist of a Russian attempt to "unpack the package" by throwing out a series of isolated counterproposals, each designed to catch the fancy of one of the Western powers and to horrify the others. (Example: an appeal for a mutual reduction of armed forces in central Europe, which would hold out to Britain the prospect of dismantling her costly Army of the Rhine, but would strike France and West Germany as the forerunner to U.S. military withdrawal from Western Europe.) Aware of the West's well-publicized failure to formulate any agreed-upon "fallback" positions...
Unannounced, he showed up a few nights later to catch the American Holiday on Ice show at the Lenin Sports Palace with his son Sergei, as well as First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan and cronies from the Central Committee. Afterward, in a private room at the back of the hall, Khrushchev gave a caviar-and-smoked-salmon party for the cast, scattering bear hugs and backslaps among hearty toasts in brandy. There was no talk of politics...
Makers predict that production of room units will rise from last year's 1,350,000 to about 1,700,000, and shipments of central air conditioners will go from last year's 224,000 to 280,000. They expect a boost from the record number of new houses going up this year (see Construction); 10% of them will be built with central air conditioning v. only 1.4% in 1952. Says the Federal Housing Administration: "Within a few years, any house that is not air-conditioned will probably be obsolescent...
...contests were held simultaneously in Cambridge, New Haven, and Princeton to debate the proposition "Resolved: That the United States should negotiate for disengagement in Central Europe...
...cultural constellations, the rise and fall of Greco-Roman civilization is merely an episode lasting roughly from 1000 B.C. to 600 A.D. Toynbee traces the course of Hellenism's bright star lucidly, a little offhandedly, treating it largely as an object lesson for the present. Hellenism's central characteristic was the worship of man-exemplified by the ludicrously human crew of Olympian divinities and, later, by a more sophisticated secular humanism. This man worship, which has thrilled so many historians of Greece, chills Toynbee (an Anglican with a yen for syncretism). To him, it is a form...