Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...correspondent last week, the U.S. must move ahead-in stepped-up people-to-people exchanges; in training technicians, administrators, businessmen to serve overseas; in meeting and debating with Communists and neutralists in world labor unions, student organizations; in finding better ways of bolstering the cause of freedom behind the Iron Curtain...
...tons of grains, there was a serious shortage of food in the cities. This could be partly explained by the fouled-up transportation system. Under the forced industrialization drive, trucks and trains that might have transported food were kept busy rushing from place to place with loads of pig iron ineptly made in thousands of primitive village smelters...
...Iron-grey, burly and vigorous at 62, Larry Gould speaks of penguins-Mrs. Gould and he share their home with a stuffed one-Sputniks and education with more authority than most. A topflight geologist and geographer, he was second-in-command of Admiral Byrd's 1928-30 Antarctic expedition, now heads the U.S. Antarctic program for the International Geophysical Year. Other qualifications for informed alarm: Gould is a trustee of the Ford Foundation and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, national president of Phi Beta Kappa and a member of the National Science Board...
...Marxist brotherhood but power politics. What moved Gomulka to embrace Ulbricht's seedy puppet regime was one of the most powerful levers in Central European diplomacy-the future of the Oder-Neisse frontier between Poland and Germany. It is a question that agitates both sides of the Iron Curtain, and will play a large part in any future Western dickering with Khrushchev...
...Otaru, on the big northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, high above Otaru Bay. The last of nine children, all two years apart, she grew up in a jampacked household, the family circle swollen by two servants and seven extra boys, all apprentices from her father's thriving iron factory. No one paid much attention to her, Miyoshi remembers. She was too little. But she managed to steal into the neighborhood Kabuki theater, and had money enough for "ice" candy. Today, onstage, she sings her Flower Drum song...