Word: landed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your July 13 cover story on Soviet First Deputy Premier Frol Kozlov's official visit to this country seems excessively cynical, sarcastic and vindictive-like the reaction of the fairy-tale witch whose mirror of truth began telling her that she was no longer the fairest in the land. It will do us no good to lie to ourselves. The Russians are gaining on us in all fields and will continue to do so, regardless of TIME'S neurotic reactions...
...that Gomulka has not stamped out in his campaign to restore Communist authority in Poland is official tolerance of private farms. So stubbornly resistant are Polish peasants to collectivization that even now, after three years of Gomulka, cooperative farms total less than 1% of the nation's arable land. Would Khrushchev spoil everything with one of his off-the-cob remarks? Gomulka wanted no independent witnesses present when Nikita got to talking about agriculture...
...East Germany's top Communist brass is concerned, proletarian equality is for others. For 20 top Communists and their families, a special construction crew is putting finishing touches on a palatial housing development on 186 acres of forest land near Lake Liepnitz, 15 miles north of Berlin...
Like Fellow Builders William (Levittown) Levitt and William (Hotel Zeckendorf) Zeckendorf, Norman Winston preserves his name in brick and mortar. Four U.S. communities are named Winston Park and four Winston schools have risen on land donated by Winston. These, and a philanthropic foundation, are his monuments; he has no children. Why does he not retire? Says Winston: "It's too late to retire...
Died. Ernest Bloch, 78, Swiss-born composer (Schelomo, America), who captured in his orchestral and chamber music the youthful ardor of his adopted land, the U.S., and the indomitable spirit of his Jewish heritage, combined the tried music of the old masters with the experimental techniques of the moderns in a rich synthesis, discouraged cliques by living in isolation on the rocky coast of Oregon; of cancer; in Portland...