Word: landed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over the mere novelty of Russian cultural performances or industrial exhibits. And as for the visits of the big Redwigs, the U.S. has toughened considerably in the half year since Soviet First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan got an openhanded, almost fawning reception from business and civic leaders across the land...
Icebreakers & Warmth. For a stranger in a strange land with strange dignitaries, Kozlov took over with hostly firmness, attached himself to the President with only a young interpreter bobbing along between them. Kozlov, who speaks no English, boomed out his small talk, and the interpreter translated softly. Ike small-talked back as they headed for the escalator. He recalled his visit to Russia after V-E day in 1945. "We visited the Leningrad trenches, and then we visited the house of a very famous Russian poet -but I forgot his name." "Pushkin?" offered the interpreter. "Yes, Pushkin," recalled...
...second generation Bolshevik, Kozlov was born in 1908-three years after the first big uprising against the Czar-in the village of Loshchinino. Ryazan province. His parents, he says, were poor farmers who owned their land but had to piece out their living by working at a nearby textile factory. At 15, Frol went to work in the textile plant and at 18 became a member of the Communist Party, which sent him off to a worker's school and later to Leningrad Polytechnic Institute. Engineer Kozlov served for a time as foreman in a steel plant...
...feel that we have only scratched the door of revolution," announced Nasser in an interview with his newspaper Al Ahram. "When the tide of aggression receded from our land, this was the first thing that came to my view: the time had come for real revolutionary action." Nasser confessed that when he came to power in 1952, his revolutionary group of army officers had not fully understood what they were working for. But after the Suez invasion, said he, they saw clearly that the job was to create a wholly new "cooperative socialist and democratic society." In the "radical change...
Fortnight ago, at an "extraordinary meeting" in Shanghai, party secretaries from 37 major cities met with Vice Premier Li Hsien-nien to cope with a new crisis. Henceforth, the Vice Premier declared, city dwellers would start growing their own food on the "large tracts of land on the outskirts" of town. To outsiders, the announcement meant two things, one as grim as the other: 1) the start of the long postponed campaign to force the cities into the kind of anthill communes that now blight the countryside, and 2) tacit confirmation of the many reports that the people...