Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Khrushchev has superlative cause for worrying about the continued existence of West Berlin: it stands as a showcase outpost of freedom-a glowing symbol, 100 miles inside the Iron Curtain, of successful allied policy and capitalist prosperity, a haven for thousands upon thousands of East German refugees in flight from the drab, despondent backdrop of Communist East Germany. West Berlin's symbolism is repeated on a much larger scale in Konrad Adenauer's German Federal Republic. To erase Western strength in Berlin would be a sure step toward weakening West Germany, and the Russians have never ceased trying...
Materialistic despotisms, with their iron discipline, their mechanistic performance, their hard and shiny exterior, always seem formidable. Democracies seem to stumble and falter; they advertise their differences and always seem vulnerable. But history has demonstrated that democracies are usually stronger and despotisms are always more vulnerable than they appear. For example, it is impossible for Communist nations to develop into modern industrial states without a large degree of education. But minds so educated also penetrate the fallacies of Marxism and increasingly resist conformity. Also, there are increasing demands on the part of the subject peoples for more consumer goods...
BIRMINGHAM, ALA. (pop. 360,150), most concentrated heavy-industry city in Deep South, steel mills, iron foundries, etc., set up 1871 in midst of Jones Valley iron ore, coal, limestone; now centers around Tennessee Coal & Iron Division of U.S. Steel Corp. with 25,000 employees, also diversifies into 720 firms, e.g., Hayes Aircraft Corp., which turn out 3,250 products. Ample cheap labor force: rural white in-migrants, Negroes. Negro population: 38.9%, with rising living standards, though only 21.1% of Negro families make upwards of $4,000 a year against 77.2% of whites. Tourist attraction: Vulcan, 55-ft. monument...
Strongman Porfirio Diáz took over after Juárez in 1876, ruled with an iron hand, justifying his protective dictatorship by sighing, "Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the U.S." He was overthrown by the 1910 Revolution, which became the almost mystical source of reform-land, church, social, economic-and is still the major influence in Mexico's national life today. It was led by Francisco Madero, a 5-ft. 2-in. vegetarian, teetotaler and spiritualist with brown beard, piping voice and a nervous tic. Madero was supported by the backwoods guerrillas Francisco...
...Visitors, by Mary McMinnies. It may not be true that foreigners are funny, that men are silly, and that dictatorships are absurd, but Novelist McMinnies makes it seem so in this tale of diplomatic hanky-panky behind the Iron Curtain...