Word: importations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This famine endangers the Tito regime so that the Marshal will have to import $50,000,000 in foodstuffs if he is to avoid mass starvation in Yugoslavia. He will be forced to cancel a large grain export program with which he hoped to earn money for the purchase of machinery. Discontent is already growing on the countryside; only two weeks ago starving peasants in the village of Selo burned local government headquarters. Similar outbreaks may convince Russia that the time is ripe to bring Yugoslavia back into the Cominform fold by getting rid of Tito and the Titoists...
This hidden source, according to its discoverer, science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, is the "engram," "a moment of 'unconsciousness' containing physical pain or painful emotion." during this moment of "unconsciousness" the individual's "reactive mind" records all nearby utterances. No matter what their import, the "moronic" reactive mind misconstrues the words to be commands, and they influence the individual's later behavior like post-hypnotic suggestions...
...Natión arrested without explanation. They were released after a few hours, but since then more than a dozen ruses have been employed to try to put the papers out of business. Perón has personally urged readers to boycott La Prensa. Laws governing the import of newsprint have been juggled to take paper away from La Prensa and La Natión and give it to pro-Perón papers...
...season. Christopher Fry, the brilliant English playwright, will have two productions: "The Lady's Not for Burning," with John Gielgud, in late October, and Neva Patterson in "Ring Round the Moon," which will probably be booked for November. Both plays have already proved highly successful in London. Another British import will be D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in October --good news for Gilbert & Sullivan enthusiasts. "The Late Edwina Black" is due in early November, and will eventually move on to Broadway as "Edwina." The Sadler's Wells Ballet, as you may have heard, is sold out for its one week...
...Vice President H. B. Dean on a tour of South America to drum up local capital to build or buy hotels. The field looked so ripe that Pan Am put up $1 million to start a new subsidiary, Intercontinental Hotels Corp., arranged a $25 million credit with the Export-Import Bank, and decided to girdle the globe with hotels...