Word: numbered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spent the night together in an army tent. Tito regaled his guest with the story of how his desperate 19,000, surrounded by a ring of 120,000 German and other troops, buried their hard-won field guns, slaughtered and ate their packhorses, and then, losing nearly half their number in the charge, fought through the supposedly impassable Sutjeska River canyon, broke through to the safety of a great oak forest beyond the German lines...
...similar group last summer produced some scenes from Shakespeare. A number of Harvard undergraduates had planned this spring to produce weekly plays at the Pi Eta Theatre, but had to cancel their plan because it was "financially infeasible...
This was a gallant performance and one well calculated to enhance Gomulka's prestige with the Polish people. But it was not practical politics. Khrushchev might hesitate to use military force against the Poles (who number 28 million against Hungary's 10 million), but he could well bring Poland to its knees in a matter of weeks by cutting off the raw materials on which the Polish economy depends. Accordingly, at week's end, Gomulka beat a retreat. The Nagy and Maleter executions, he declared, were "Hungary's internal affair," and "the attitude of the Yugoslav...
...train more people-the U.S. population is expected to grow 55 million by 1975-and, the report warns, must train them better. Its observation: "From time to time, one still hears arguments . . . that a society can choose to educate a few people exceedingly well or to educate a great number of people somewhat less well . . . But a modern society such as ours . . . has no choice but to do both...
Through such zany mockery of the solemn, the pretentious and the inane, the bimonthly Mad is compiling a growth chart that is no laughing matter. For its sixth-anniversary number out last week, Mad printed 1,300,000 copies, a 100% increase in a year. What is more, Mad is solidly in the black though it carries not a line of advertising, has spent only $350 on outright promotion. In fact, the essence of Mad's success is its nimble spoofing of promotions of all kinds. In its parodies of advertisements and travel stickers, vending machines and lovelorn columnists...