Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the bulk of the 17,000 delegates coming from the Soviet bloc-many having their first look outside the Iron Curtain-the festival organizers did their best to make them feel that they had never left home. The Bulgarian, Czech, Hungarian and Rumanian delegates were quartered in tent cities five miles from Vienna, closely guarded by other "delegates," and whisked back and forth each day in buses, some of them with Moscow license plates...
Every other summer for twelve years the Communists have served up a monster propaganda rally for fellow travelers of the younger set from all over the world, and for any other ingenuous souls who could be enticed along. Until this year, the circuses were always staged behind the Iron Curtain, with plenty of Red police to keep things moving by the numbers, and press censorship to blank out any slipups. But last week, when the pink pipes of Pan sounded for the Seventh Youth Festival in neutral Vienna's vast Prater fairgrounds, there was trouble, trouble everywhere...
...Vienna to undercut the festival in a variety of ways. Free bus trips to view the barbed-wire border of Hungary were organized. Light planes circled over Vienna drawing streamers that said "Remember Hungary," "Remember Tibet." The brother of the Dalai Lama was invited to Vienna to talk with Iron Curtain delegates, and U.S. Songstress Ella Fitzgerald was brought in to sing at the other side of town at the same time as Red-banked Baritone Paul Robeson Sr. was Old Man Rivering at a festival rally. All week long, Americans slipped anti-Communist literature under the dinner places...
...like stone house on Mexico City's Avenue of the Insurgents. "Mr. Judge," it read, "please take us with you.'' A delivery boy picked it up and puzzled over the strange message. His boss took it to a police station. Soon two detectives knocked at the iron front door...
Curses & Scars. As the children grew up, their view of the outside world-except on extremely rare occasions-was through a hole in the iron door less than an inch in diameter. All day the family worked to help father make poison-from 5 a.m. to dusk. The youngsters got no schooling; their vocabularies were not more than 300 words, and they cursed as a matter of course. Their necks were dotted with small scars where their father had pressed his. knife a bit too hard instilling discipline: no whimpering for more food, no asking...