Word: ivan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...illegal Roman Catholic underground. The Red newspaper, Politica, charged that it was a "penetración Yanqui." And some of the inmates of Villa Chula Vista this week are not sure themselves what they have got into, or what manner of wild man is this dark, cadaverous Ivan Illich, who yells at them and lectures them, prays and plays with them, insults them and drinks with them...
...Atlanta will also have a moderate mayor to succeed Moderate William Berry Hartsfield, 71, who is retiring after 24 years in office. The city's voters have rejected a segregationist candidate, chosen instead, by a landslide of 64,313 to 36,091, Ivan Allen Jr., 50, proprietor of the South's biggest office-supply firm...
...becomes the most scrupulously scrutinized period of Durant's entire enterprise, this volume contains some curious errors of emphasis: the great migration of peasants and adventurers, jailbirds and divines from the England of James I to the New World is dismissed in a paragraph; the years during which Ivan the Terrible, Boris Godunov and the first of the Romanov dynasty were transforming Muscovite Russia into an imperial power get only six pages...
...Bobbing Beard. The danger was that the tense crowds on both sides of the barriers might merge and touch off the East German revolt that everyone feared. Already Moscow's famed Marshal Ivan Konev had moved two divisions of Russian troops into Berlin's outskirts, ready for the kind of action that the Soviets had employed to put down the abortive 1953 East German revolt. But the West Berliners were not intimidated. "Berlin bleibt frei, Berlin bleibt frei" (Berlin will remain free), chanted a crowd of 30,000 gathered a stone's throw from the Vopos...
...uprising. Should all these home-grown forces fail or defect, as was the case in Hungary, there remains the formidable Russian army in East Germany. 350,000 to 400,000 strong. Last week these forces got a new commander experienced in quelling popular uprisings: much-decorated Marshal Ivan S. Konev, who, as boss of all Warsaw Pact troops in 1956, had a hand in crushing the Hungarian freedom fighters...