Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Also echoing and re-echoing was President Eisenhower's Christmas message to the nations behind the Iron Curtain, in which he said: "The American people recognize the trials under which you are suffering . . . and share your faith that right in the end will prevail to bring you once again among the free nations of the world." In Moscow, Communist Boss Nikita Khrushchev roared that the message violated the "Spirit of Geneva," was "crude interference" in the affairs of other nations (see FOREIGN NEWS...
These glowing words came not from U.S. travel bureaus but from top Russian newsmen back behind the Iron Curtain after a 33-day junket through the U.S. (TIME, Oct. 31). The seven junketeers managed to needle the U.S. in their reports. They noted and disapproved a "greed for profit." ("A unique means of making a profit is shown by Jack Graham, who blew up his mother and a plane for the insurance.") They rapped U.S. TV for showing too many commercials ("Only a stone sphinx could stick to one of these performances to the very end"). But they gave readers...
Italy. Down from 2,300,000 in 1946 to 1,700,000 in 1954, but still the biggest Communist Party outside the Iron Curtain. Losing some of its hold on the trade unionists. "Even inflated official Communist figures indicate stagnation and not growth in Italy." The impressive Communist vote in Italy's last national election: 6,120,000 (22.6% of the vote), plus 3,440,000 (12.7%) for Nenni's fellow-traveling Socialists...
...Exports increased 12%, even though wheat, a major export in past years, was hard to sell in 1955. Such new export items as uranium, iron ore and oil more than made up for the grain decline...
Whenever they start worrying about the strong Iron Curtain track teams that threaten to run off with the next Olympics, some Western trackmen suddenly remember that foot racing is, after all, a sport for amateurs. Those Iron Curtain athletes are state-supported pros, runs the complaint. They have no financial worries, and they train all the time. How can the West compete with a racket like that...