Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little black Simca, is Buffie. Efficient, charming, she carries the informal title of "assistant to the president," works in a Chinese-modern office next to her husband's Spartan, oak-paneled room, "unofficially" runs the women's pages of the Chandler papers. Current pursuit: the drive to establish a $55 million civic auditorium and music center (against opposition that fairly cringes at the sound of her name...
Khrushchev's proclaimed program had a gentle sound, as he sought to prove the unity and good intentions of Soviet leadership and to re-establish a firm international line instead of the wobbling and confused foreign policy Russia has recently exhibited. But the faggots of denunciation were being gathered, and the smell of flames...
...unexpected and as ruthless as anything Stalin had done. But there was a world of difference in Khrushchev's approach to power. Whereas Stalin, utterly contemptuous of party or world opinion, had purged the army and party structure wide and deep, Khrushchev had gone to great lengths to establish support among the party rank and file, particularly in the provinces, and to make himself a popular figure with peasants and workers. He had relaxed the police control, freed many prisoners; he had associated himself with such popular projects as better housing, free farming, decentralized industry, and freedom from...
...while last week, sleek and shrewd Amintore Fanfani, organizational boss of the Christian Democratic Party, tried to establish an Italian government. When Fanfani failed, Italy's ambitious President Giovanni Gronchi pulled a surprise. He renamed as Premier rotund, outspoken Adone Zoli, who tried and failed last month to form a government. Blandly reminding one and all that he had never accepted Zoli's resignation, the President informed Zoli that he is thus still Premier. Question: Will the Italian Chamber of Deputies think...
When the museum is ready, the 40 Gulbenkian masterpieces now in Washington on a loan basis will be packed up and shipped off to the kind of permanent home that their collector could never find for himself but finally managed to establish for his paintings...