Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Their first objective was French Communist Party headquarters. Earlier, the government had offered the Communists police protection, but Party Boss Jacques Duclos refused the help, sure that his party toughs could fend for themselves. When evening fell, a dozen Communists stood guard on balconies before closed iron shutters, as from five narrow streets the mob surged in. The Communists greeted them with a fusillade of bottles, one a Molotov cocktail that exploded in flames in the crowd (see cut). The youths regrouped and rushed the building. One shinnied up a traffic light to fasten a bloodstained Hungarian flag. The others...
Italy. In the home of the largest Communist Party outside the Iron Curtain, 3,000 party members in the deep Red city of Rovigo (pop. 14,600) alone reportedly turned in their membership cards last week. Defections were reported all over the country. Pietro Nenni, leader of Italy's fellow traveling Socialists, announced: "For the first time in many years there is deep disagreement between us and the Communists." Connoisseurs of his serpentine mind were divided over whether he was capable of honest feeling about suffering anywhere, or just trying to save his own hide in the Communist wreckage...
...wide, fungus-ridden AVH cell. Said onetime lecturer and translator Dr. Edith Bone: "I was a 'secret prisoner.' No one in the world knew about me except the secret police. There are many thousands, perhaps millions, living, rotting like that in Iron Curtain countries." Explained Dr. Bone: "I was innocent [of the charge of being a British spy] but I was also guilty. I had been a Communist and I had helped build the machine of which I was the victim. That is why I am almost glad to have shared the sufferings of the many, many thousands...
...Caribbean coast some 200 miles, the swift, black Caroni River plunges into the chocolate-colored Orinoco. Southward from this junction of two mighty streams lie jungles and sandy scrublands studded with low, reddish mountains. This poor-looking expanse is one of the world's great storehouses of iron. West of the Caroni looms Cerro Bolivar, blanketed with 500 million tons of high-grade ore. Farther west lies another iron mountain, El Trueno, endowed with 150 million tons. On the other side of the Caroni. Bethlehem Steel Corp. gathers up 3,000,000 tons of ore a year from...
...These are only three among dozens of ore-crusted hills and mountains. Geologists' estimates run to 2 billion tons of iron ore, and that may be only the beginning. Oil-rich Venezuela is also iron-rich...