Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much as the subscriptions to the loan envisaged for the current year. This is a vicious circle." Khrushchev's solution was as Marxist as the circle itself: wipe out the loan and postpone paying back previous loans for 25 years, during which loan holders would get no interest...
Khrushchev did not expect the West to believe that Soviet workers would gladly accept the loss of a theoretical 260 billion rubles on outstanding loans. Grunted Nikita: "Comrades, the capitalist-that shopkeeper who would slaughter his own father for a half-percent interest-will never believe that you consent to this of your own free will. He will read about it in the papers and say they have intimidated the workers and peasants." And in fact there were two reasons why the Soviet worker might not be wholly displeased with the state pig passed to him by Khrushchev...
...Middle East relationships. Liberal Frenchmen have called him "our final card in North Africa"-though the fact of the matter is that if the French do not make an end to the bloody war in adjoining Algeria, none of their cards will be worth much. The U.S.'s interest is direct: it has a naval air station and four SAC air bases in Morocco from which, in case of war, bombers could command the Mediterranean and reach Russia itself...
...Navy's present plan. Rear Admiral Rawson Bennett, chief of naval research, concedes that the satellite is not supposed to be a military weapon. His stated reason for secrecy is that the presence of reporters, photographers, TV cameras and other representatives of the public's interest may rush his men into launching the satellite before they are completely ready or when the weather is not completely favorable...
...Journalism's technological progress has bred too much sameness and mediocrity, according to Editor Henry Beetle Hough of Massachusetts' weekly Vineyard Gazette (circ. 4,993). Examples: "If the same standards that apply to local newspaper writing on the score of interest, concision and carrying its own weight generally were to be applied to some of the syndicated columns of random comment and discourse, the columns would be thrown out of the paper ... As for the editorial pages of the daily newspapers, it is easy to imagine that the visitor from Mars would at once assume they could...