Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dress Optional. As befitted an encounter between the only Eastern European leaders who have defied Moscow and lived to tell the tale, last week's meeting sometimes seemed less a diplomatic conference than a family reunion. From the crowds that cheered Gomulka through Belgrade came shouts of "Welcome to Poland's Tito!" Catering to the simple tastes of his guest, pomp-loving Marshal Tito even abated somewhat the imperial splendor of his parties. ("Comrades who do not have a dinner jacket will be welcome in a dark suit.") They adjourned to the Adriatic island of Brioni, where Tito...
Diplomatic Opportunity. In West Germany, where recovery of the "eastern territories" is supposedly still a hot emotional issue, Tito's statement could not be ignored in the last week of an election campaign. Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano blustered darkly of taking action against Yugoslavia (nature undisclosed). The point of Tito's toast is that West Germany has never abandoned its claims to the provinces of East Prussia, Pomerania and Silesia, which were given to Poland at the end of World War II to compensate Poland for the slice of its eastern lands (68,667 sq. mi.) grabbed...
...this dusty quarrel lies one of the West's few chances to make an imaginative advance in Eastern Europe. The 4,422,000 Germans who migrated from the eastern territories were once a combative, vengeful lump in West Germany; now they have been absorbed in the general prosperity and are no longer a hindrance to Germany's diplomatic maneuvering. High-placed German Christian Democrats, once the election is past, hope to take the diplomatic and economic offensive in Eastern Europe. Their best bet is to establish friendly ties with Poland, and their best means is to abandon some...
...carried by farmers' boots, auto tires, shipments of farm products or almost anything else that moves. Experts shudder to think what would happen if a hurricane were to pick up the seeds and scatter them like smoke. The parasite can probably thrive throughout the South, from Virginia to eastern Texas. It can live on wild grasses, including the common crabgrass, and the 20-year life of its seeds makes it a stubborn enemy...
Scored for Tar. The Minneapolis will also première Cowell's Persian Set, a haunting, eastern-flavored piece originally scored for twelve instruments, including the three-stringed Persian tar. Cowell was also able, in the past year, to work on a 13th symphony, write a two-movement piece with a "Japanese feel" titled Ongaku (music), and compose, on commission, a national anthem for the new state of Malay (it was rejected, along with entries by Benjamin Britten and others, in favor of a Malayan folk tune named Bright Moonlight...