Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back in the United States after a five-month tour of the Soviet Union, Martin E. Malia, assistant professor of History, yesterday reported great success in effecting exchanges of books through the Iron Curtain. Malia said that every library he visited in Russia now has the Kremlin's permission to trade books with the United States. The program will go into effect immediately, he said...
Shocks, Steel & Paint. Over the years, Bell Labs has tested more than 100 squirrel deterrents. Among them: weasel scent, tree paint, rabbit repellent, electric shock devices, steel-tape armor, 24-in. barriers of galvanized iron on telephone poles. None of these measures have worked. Several years ago, a researcher thought he had the answer in a brand-new repellent made of chlorinated hydrocarbon, found that its only effect was to make the squirrels chew treated cables and ignore the untreated ones. Lethal measures, e.g., coating the cables with paint containing ground glass, were blocked by protests from the A.S.P.C.A...
Following this she will enter the world championships at Germisch, Germany, and will then give exhibitions in Berlin, Vienna, and possibly in some Iron Curtain countries...
...difficult to imagine the 102-story Empire State Building without seeing it. One can dispute whether such high buildings are needed, but one cannot help admiring the boldness of the planners and the golden hand of the workers. [There is] the bridge of many kilometers that hangs like iron lace over the bay connecting San Francisco and Oakland; the Ford factory near Cleveland, where you hardly see any workers in shops that produce eight-cylinder motors-who, if not we Soviet people, who . . . march in seven-league boots on the road of technical progress, who, if not we, can really...
...Eisenstein films as Potemkin and Ten Days That Shook the World. All in all, the story of tyranny rampant was pieced together out of newsclips and bits of movies from some 76 different sources. The film was often hauntingly effective with its firing squads, starving children, hanged partisans and iron-faced Red leaders. But its lesson-if any-was hopelessly lost in the maelstrom of scenes covering the past 50 years...