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...Moscow's Dynamo Stadium, First Party Secretary Khrushchev, straw hat perched precariously on his egg-bald pate, volubly told a crowd of 75,000 that Western friendship for Yugoslavia had been based only on 1) the Soviet Union's conflict with Yugoslavia and 2) the hope that Yugoslavia would return to capitalism. Khrushchev's speech, underlining hostility to the West and stressing the unity of the "Socialist" camp, gave a sharper edge to Tito's prepared address. What Tito had to say, read in faltering Russian, tamely supported Soviet policy on the two Germanys (though Belgrade...
...Saarinen's contemporaries long ago discovered, there is a dynamo of relentless energy behind his easygoing façade. A round-the-clock worker, he sets such high standards of perfection that on occasion he holds his draftsmen and designers at their drafting tables straight through the night, is so prodigal with money for research that he recently spent $12,000 to win a competition that guaranteed only $4,000 in expenses. But judged by the results, Saarinen's total approach pays off. His work has won the applause of the glass and steel purists, yet pleased clients...
...Institute of Chemical Technology. She graduated in 1941 as a chemical engineer. But instead of practicing her profession, she and her technical knowledge were used to prompt and police other workers. As she came up through the Moscow party secretariat, her speeches rang with carping phrases: "The Kirov dynamo factory is seriously lagging behind," or a local party committee "does not exercise influence on the march towards the fulfillment of the thematical plan of scientific research." She told the Physics Institute: "How can there be any talk of criticism and self-criticism when . . . 102 of the personnel are related...
Cameron Hawley (Executive Suite) has fashioned the better book around an up-to-the-minute brand of millionaire. Cash McCall is a jut-jawed dynamo who buys depressed companies cheap, jacks them up into profitable operation and sells them dear. Men who do not know him hate him and call him nasty names, e.g., "operator," "raider," "wrecker...
...farewell speech before 70,000 Russians at Moscow's Dynamo Stadium, Nehru voiced the surprising notion that in its struggle for freedom India had been influenced by the October Revolution. "Although under the leadership of Mahatma...