Word: gori
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...large. The stubborn Democrat (see box, page 13) has fought the plane from its inception; he kept feeding its House critics valuable information and staged a last-minute press conference to complain that the Administration was trying to gag one of the plane's scientific opponents: Dr. Gio Gori, of the National Cancer Institute who first agreed, but later refused, to testify about the potential effect of SST flights on skin cancer...
Msgr, Alberto Gori, Roman Catholic archbishop of Jerusalem, telephoned organizers of the procession to say: "The weather is too bad for the procession. We must cancel. One of our worries is that nuns could be blown over the cliffs by this terrible wind...
Lavish Homage. Perhaps the only Spot in the Soviet Union where Stalin's anniversary was marked with joy was his birthplace, the squalid little Georgian town of Gori. There, obdurate Georgians, proud of a native son's fame (or infamy), paid him lavish homage. TIME Correspondent Stanley Cloud found policemen posted along all the roads to Gori on December 21, stopping all but residents of the town to prevent Georgian jubilation from becoming an unseemly public spectacle...
Admitted the next day, Cloud learned that most of Gori's 15,000 citizens had swarmed into the town square, which is dominated by what may be one of the last statues of Stalin still standing in the Soviet Union. There they feasted, listened to speeches in praise of their departed kinsman and toasted his memory. "You know how it is," a Red Army veteran said. "When someone is alive, he's great. When he dies, they say he never existed. Stalin existed. If he hadn't, there would be Germans in Moscow today...