Word: leninism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Daily Worker and Wilfred Burchett of Paris' L'Humanite. At first, not allowed to read, he passed the time by doing mathematical problems in his head. One favorite exercise: squaring all the numbers from i to 1,000. Later he was given Communist books-the works of Lenin and other Red scriptures-to read. "I'm pretty well read on Communism," said Dean wryly...
Moving men and huge vans converged on Moscow's Red Square last week to take away load after load of government files from the massive block of buildings which front on Lenin's tomb. Behind the movers came the carpenters, with blueprints to make over Upper Row, on the Red Square's east side. Three weeks had passed since Premier Georgy Malenkov (sounding more like the editor of Vogue than boss of all the Russians) announced that "we must develop attractive textiles, smart clothing, elegant footwear...
Those who watch the stone-faced panjandrums of Communism elbowing for position atop Lenin's tomb on rubric days concluded last week that fast-rising, tough Nikita Khrushchev, 59, First Party Secretary since last March, is now No. 3 man. Khrushchev is a dogged bureaucrat who rose to power in a succession of nasty jobs-gauleiter of the unruly Ukraine and boss of the restless collective farmers...
...Westerners: taciturn General Nam II, the ex-schoolteacher turned military dandy, who was the Reds' chief truce negotiator. The Communist radio last week accused ex-Foreign Minister Pak of complicity in the plot. Pak, party member since 1920, onetime party secretary and onetime student at Moscow's Lenin University, was not among those tried. His time may come later...
...time meeting people, many of them highly unusual types. On the advice of other U.S. officials, however, he passed up as a waste of time a chance to meet a strange journalist with a beard and some off-center political ideas. The bearded scribbler, Dulles later discovered, was Nicolai Lenin, who was about to leave Switzerland for Russia and the revolution. Ever since, Dulles has insisted on seeing almost anyone who wants to talk with him. Says he: "You never know when or where lightning will strike...