Word: homelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year. After earning his degree in political science, he plans to study law, perhaps at Georgetown University in Washington. As for Julie, after graduation in 1970, she aspires to work on documentary films. She should have plenty of opportunity to practice her trade around her family's new home...
...weeks they have pulled back some 20 of the 52 ships from their flotilla in the Mediterranean. According to U.S. Navy officials, such sanctimoniousness on the part of the Russians is hardly justified; the Americans claim that the Communist admirals are doing nothing more than returning ships to their home ports to ride out the winter weather...
Crackdown on Dissent. If the Soviet leaders do win some respite from international tensions, they will still have their hands full at home. An upsurge of intellectual dissent, of which Novelist Alexander Solzhenitzyn has become the symbol, has prompted a crackdown that is increasingly reminiscent of Stalin's day (see box). The economy is doing well, but not well enough. Last week, as the Supreme Soviet, Russia's parliament, met in the Great Kremlin Palace Congress Hall to consider the 1969 budget, the country's chief planner rattled off an impressive list of economic achievements (1968 income...
...among the Soviet leaders may have been, Hardy is unequivocal about the outcome: "Stalin's heirs occupy all the positions of power. Like Stalin, they fear the people and the truth. They created the Czechoslovak crisis and used it to intimidate the positive forces which oppose them at home...
...demanded the ouster of two key liberals: National Assembly President Josef Smrkovsky and Ota Sik, the architect of Czechoslovakia's economic reforms, who retains a seat on the Central Committee despite his self-imposed exile in Switzerland since Russia's invasion. As he was about to fly home for the meeting last week (''He had his ticket in his pocket," said a Swiss official), Sik was warned that he faced disciplinary measures under a new order to "investigate" political figures who live abroad...