Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Throughout the meals, collective farm-girls plied the farmers with vodka, Georgian champagne and sweet wine, Moldavian muscatel, Ukrainian riesling, Armenian cognac and beer. "During the meal at least a dozen toasts are drunk to world peace, Soviet-American friendship, the exchange of ideas, and to women of both countries," reported New York Times Correspondent Welles Hangen. "Thereafter it is open season for anyone to propose a toast to almost anything except war, Fascism and mass destruction." But as for Soviet agriculture, one member of the U.S. delegation remarked: "In general it seems to me that the living standard...
...carried glowing accounts of the touring Russian agricultural delegation in the U.S. (TIME, August 1), but has not published dollars and cents figures on the income and wages of U.S. farmers and farmhands. In an article on the tour, Pravda said: "There is need to further strengthen the friendship, cooperation and mutual understanding in all fields [between] the two great countries." Russian papers have also been printing daily stories about the U.S. farm delegation touring Russia. The reports include statements from the Americans (which the Communist press does not.try to refute) that U.S. farm mechanization is far ahead of Russia...
Conclusion: two months after Khrushchev's visit to Belgrade on the slivovitz friendship circuit, Communist Tito is ready to play off onetime enemies against oldtime friends...
Responsible for all the color was Austria's famed Painter Oskar Kokoschka, 69, who agreed to design the show out of friendship for the late great Conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler, who had asked him to do it. Salzburg honored Artist Kokoschka by staging a simultaneous one-man show of his paintings. The press agreed that he was "the real leading actor" in the new Magic Flute...
...church programs, let their attention wander only occasionally as the Rev. Henry Needing preached on "Life Can Be Beautiful." The Russians bought new shirts for the church service, put money in the collection box, later said that religion, or the lack of it, should not be the criterion for friendship...