Word: ivans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Grey Eminence. Agriculture Minister Ivan Volovchenko-the sixth official to hold that thankless post since Khrushchev became boss of the party in 1953-last week outlined the costliest, most ambitious program to boost farm output that has ever been undertaken by a Soviet government. After decades of starveling treatment at the hands of leaders hell-bent on industrialization, Soviet agriculture is finally to get the machinery, fertilizer and technology that have revolutionized U.S. and Western European farming over the past 50 years. But for city dwellers, Volov-chenko's promised bounty came too late. After a winter of scarcities...
...major city of the Deep South had a reputation for inspirational cooperation between whites and Negroes, it was Atlanta. The city long ago integrated its public schools, parks, golf courses, swimming pools and some restaurants and hotels. Only recently, May or Ivan Allen Jr. testified in Washington in behalf of a federal public-accommodations law. Negro and white leaders for years kept communications open and helped each other resolve many potentially dangerous situations. Atlanta's white leaders especially were fond of boasting about the city's pioneer work in race relations, its enlightened atmosphere, its sweet and easy...
...NEVER MAKE MISTAKES," by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. These two short novels by the author of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch concern outsiders in post-Stalin society: an earnest young man who believes Lenin to the letter, and an ancient, impoverished peasant woman...
...NEVER MAKE MISTAKES," by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. The author of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch is the best of the new Russian novelists who have won recognition in the post-Stalin "thaw." These are two short novels about fringe members of Soviet society: the man who still believes in Das Kapital and the poor old peasant woman who has endured both czars and commissars...
Bulgaria's Ivan-Assen Hristov Georgiev, counselor of the Bulgarian mission to the United Nations from 1956 until 1961, was so successfully obscure that scarcely any of his diplomatic colleagues missed him when he returned home from Manhattan. Last week the man no body remembered was the man everyone was talking about...