Word: lesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Less than three years before, a badly shaken and bellicose Nikita Khrushchev had flown into Warsaw only to find that he had been outmaneuvered: the new boss of Poland-which had come so close to open rebellion against the Soviet Union -was none other than Wladyslaw Gomulka, an out-of-favor Communist whom Stalin had once arrested for refusing to castigate Tito. "Traitor!" Khrushchev bellowed at him during that all-night 1956 session in the Belvedere Palace. "If you don't obey, we will crush...
Nearly three times the size of Texas, Libya is 95% arid rock and sand; 99% of its people are illiterate, tending sheep, camels and goats to eke out a per capita income of less than $100 a year. More than $85 million in U.S. aid has poured into Libya in the past eight years to help the young nation to its feet. There is a special reason for U.S. generosity: Libya's government, headed by its near-absolute monarch, King Idris I, permits the U.S. Air Force to operate Wheelus field outside Tripoli, the largest U.S. airbase outside...
Egypt. Nasser, chastened by forced coexistence with Kassem, and wiser in the ways of Communist purposes in the Middle East, seems less tense than he was, less eager for adventures, more mindful of mending fences and improving the economy at home. The fact that the most pervasive propaganda weapon in the Middle East, Nasser's Cairo radio, now outspokenly attacks the Communists in the Middle East is a gain...
...also went after their mothers. Again and again, he heard complaints that someone had made a lewd remark to a G.I. wife in a PX or pinched her bottom. The trouble was, said the colonel, that too often such women came in two categories-either "provocatively clad" or, if "less young and shapely, disgustingly clad." Last week the colonel clamped down in earnest. From now on, any serviceman's wife who tries to enter a public building on base will have her identity card "checked for appropriate follow-up action...
...less serious but more widely ballyhooed British dance product was also on display in London last week: the first ballet of Playwright Noel Coward, titled London Morning. The 32-minute work was commissioned by Britain's Festival Ballet and was suggested to him, said Coward solemnly, by the nursery jingle, "Pussycat, pussycat, where have you been?" To a tinkly, tearoom blend of Coward tunes, the curtain rose on a fantasticated façade of Buckingham Palace, at which an ice-cream-suited American was directing a battery of cameras. In quick succession, an Indian girl, a trio of tarts...