Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the Other World. Plainly, the Iron Curtain had parted a bit. In fact, it parted back in early 1958, but it took a while for traffic through the slit to build up. In January 1958, after nearly three years of on-and-off negotiations, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. signed an elaborate cultural-exchange agreement. A few days later, to get the new era off to a brisk start, Moscow sent Mikhail ("Smiling Mike") Menshikov to Washington to replace dour Georgy Zarubin as ambassador. During 1958 the U.S. sent to the U.S.S.R. 82 separate exchange projects with 953 members...
...stepped the President of the U.S., the Vice President, Commerce Secretary Lewis Strauss, Under Secretary of State Douglas Dillon, U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge and a retinue of other officials. Waiting to greet them at the Coliseum's main door was a barrel-stout man with iron-grey, curly hair and a broad smile: Frol Romanovich Kozlov, 50, First Deputy Premier of the U.S.S.R.. the Kremlin's No. 2 man. sent by Nikita Khrushchev to officiate at the opening of Russia's flashy exhibition of science, technology and culture (TIME. July...
...best hotels meat and eggs were hard to come by, and that in other cities the ration of meat, sugar and fish had been cut. As for Red China's great "leap forward" in steel, to a large extent accomplished by backyard amateur furnaces for smelting pig iron, Peking's official People's Daily was now complaining that some provinces of the country were able to use only about half...
...Political Army. Diaz Lanz's charge is backed by a growing pile of evidence. Raul Castro, onetime traveler behind the Iron Curtain, now commander of Cuba's armed forces, boasts: "We are a political army. We fought to transform the economic and social structure of the nation." Assisting Raul are Reds or pinks in top army spots, including the army inspector general, the commander of Havana's La Cabana fortress, the commander of La Cabana's 7th Regiment, the army legal chief in Oriente, the military commander of Las Villas district...
Only a small part of the ocean bed is yet known in any detail. Recent surveys have shown that large areas of the bottom are covered thickly with rounded, blackish nodules that have grown as crusts around some nucleus, sometimes a shark's tooth. They are mostly iron and manganese oxides, but they often contain considerable amounts of copper, nickel and cobalt. "The amounts are absolutely staggering," says Dr. Henry Menard of Scripps. One 10-million-sq.-mi. area in the Pacific, he estimates, has nodules worth hundreds of thousands of dollars per square mile...