Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...certificate for 5,000 tons of Chilean copper. Rava was part of a gang, headed by the Rumanian commercial attache in Bern, Switzerland, which specialized in getting control of strategic materials sent to Europe, supposedly destined for Western European businessmen. Once the goods arrived, they were smuggled behind the Iron Curtain...
...ranging from the Department of Agriculture to the Atomic Energy Commission. EDAC reports to Director Stassen, who is charged with administering the Battle Act. This law, passed in 1951, forbids U.S. aid to any country which knowingly permits goods on the U.S. embargo list to be shipped behind the Iron Curtain...
...Briton, 23 were Americans who had chosen to renounce their homeland and live on the Communist side of the Iron Curtain. A band of U.S. newsmen silently watched the group dismount, chattering and joking with each other and looking-except for their faded blue P.W. uniforms-like a bunch of crew-cut American college boys returning from vacation. One of them spotted a Chinese newspaperman. "Hey, Comrade Lee," he shouted, "see you in Peking." A Chinese Communist called: "Don't forget us!" "Never!" cried another American...
...100th anniversary of the definition of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception. The Marian Year will be marked by special ceremonies, and Roman Catholics everywhere were urged to concentrate their prayers on three main subjects: world peace, church unity, and "the church of silence"-Catholics who live behind the Iron Curtain under fear and persecution for their faith...
This July, the SUMMER CRIMSON published an editorial attacking the Eisenhower administration for its "apathy" in failing to take advantage of the turmoil behind the Iron Curtain. Alan K. Campbell, Assistant Director of the Summer School, complained that the editorial was not in keeping with the CRIMSON-Summer School precedent. This difference should have remained one between the two involved parties; instead it suddenly exploded into an alleged attack on "freedom of the press." A former CRIMSON editor, working for the Boston Globe, got the story, printed the bare facts minus the background, and soon had it buzzing across...