Word: offs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In one of Big Brotherland's countless fratricidal quarrels, satellite Bulgaria in 1949 charged Deputy Premier Traicho Rostov with plotting against the Communist regime and, just to give the case its proper anticapitalist flavor, accused U.S. Minister Donald R. Heath of conspiring with Kostov. The U.S. promptly broke off...
The budget is something else again. President Eisenhower seized the initiative by presenting a balanced budget in January, and the Democratic 86th Congress has never quite made up its mind whether to accept the political onus of unbalancing it. On virtually all the legislation handled so far, the 86th has...
But ahead loomed a real threat to the economic health built up over the past twelve months: the United Steelworkers' demands for fat "general contract improvement" when current contracts with the steel companies run out on June 30. (Since January the Steelworkers have been running weekly newspaper advertisements touting...
Late one afternoon last week, Gordon and Trannie Roberts, with their sons, were driving home from a visit to a home for handicapped children in a nearby town. Trannie was due on duty at her hospital in 90 minutes; there would not be time for a devotional at home. Gordon...
Author Biely is a crafty storyteller who can keep a reader flipping the pages while whipping up an intellectual storm. As he describes St. Petersburg in 1905; it is a city where icy water licks morose granite foundations. In prose that seems jittery at first, then calculated, Biely moves from...