Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kazakhstan (pop. 9,300,000), almost as big as all of Western Europe, is second only to the Ukraine as the breadbasket of the nation. It is Russia's top lead and zinc producer, the second-largest source of copper. Its capital, Alma-Ata (Father of Apples), where Leon Trotsky was exiled in 1927, is full of bleak new Soviet-style construction. A more recent exile from Moscow, ex-Premier Georgi Malenkov, now runs a hydroelectric power station at Ust-Kamenogorsk. Uzbekistan (pop. 8,113,000), with new irrigation projects, gives Russia two-thirds of its cotton. Its capital...
Last week in Munich, legal experts of 27 nations, gathered by the U.N.-sponsored International Civil Aviation Organization, were writing an authoritative law of the air. Basically, the new code's most important provision would give priority of jurisdiction to the country in which the aircraft was registered, though under certain conditions the nation in whose airspace the crime was committed might claim the right to prosecute. The new law would also give pilots authority equivalent to that of ships' captains on the high seas. They could seize and hold suspects in the air and, when necessary, deputize...
...noted Mannix, is the only major nation with no Government-controlled health plan. And it will have such a plan tomorrow, he prophesied gloomily, unless action is taken today to strengthen the voluntary medical system of which voluntary hospitals are a key component...
...Long Road. The acclaim in Moscow was no greater than that in the five other countries that the Philharmonic has visited so far on the longest tour in its history. The tour is also likely to go down as the most successful of all time. Opening its 17-nation tour in Athens in early August, Bernstein and the Philharmonic so moved the audience with Mozart's G-Major Piano Concerto that it had to play three encores, and a halt had to be called after Lenny explained: "We are very tired from a long plane flight." As he shuffled...
Each autumn the nation's most indignant parents are those with children barely too young to enter school. The cutoff age may be as high as 6½ (in Des Moines) or as low as 5 years 3 months (in Norwich, N.Y.), but thousands of children are bound to miss out by a few days or weeks. In 77% of U.S. public schools, the rules are inflexible; the child simply has to wait another year...