Word: greyingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From their balconies and windows high in Warsaw's party headquarters, top-rank Communist officials stared grimly down on Jerusalem Avenue. There, in the March slush, a mob of 10,000 students from Warsaw's two largest universities converged on the grey building, howling slogans, pelting police with bricks and smashing windows with rock-centered snowballs. Across Poland last week, the regime of Wladyslaw Gomulka gazed in alarm upon similar scenes in what became the country's most menacing riots in eleven years...
...gracious approach should fool nobody. He is a cool operator who plans to sweep the American housewife off her feet before she has a chance to sweep the floor. Hosting a new 90-minute daily talk show called This Morn ing on ABC, he has plunged into that grey Sargasso Sea of morning game shows and reruns, and already he's making steady, perceptible waves of laugh ter. There is something vaguely immoral about one-liners at 10:30 a.m., but Cavett has no respect. Amid all the yak, yak, yak on daytime TV, he has snuck...
Operating in some of the world's most sensitive nations, Reuters newsmen have mastered the art of being inconspicuous. Anthony Grey, 29, Reuters man in Peking, was no exception. Previously assigned to East Berlin, Grey never did anything to give his hosts offense. Nevertheless, he has been under house arrest for eight months because his country...
During last July's rioting in Hong Kong, a Chinese newsman was jailed for two years by the British. The Chinese retaliated by not letting Grey out of his house. Since then, he has not been seen. For a while, he was allowed to play chess over the phone with a friend in Peking, but then the phone was cut off. Foreign diplomats try to peer through the gate in the high wall surrounding his house but to no avail...
Choice Graffiti. From the outside, the club could hardly be plainer. Except for a black awning, a red flag emblazoned with a monkey wrench, and a stream of Rolls-Royces arriving and departing, the grey, two-story building looks no different than it did in World War II, when it was a factory turning out bombsights. Inside, the proletarian theme continues with chicken-wirescreened windows, secondhand tables bought at auction for $5 apiece, and bartenders who are togged out in dungarees and blue denim work shirts...