Word: oure
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since Nikita Khrushchev got back from his U.S. visit, Moscow's press and radio have been careful to emphasize that their leader was in no way overawed by what he saw in the showcase of Western capitalism. "I did not find a better land than our Russia," said...
In the steamy southern state of Kerala, Communist Boss E.M.S. Namboodiripad saw his hopes of recapturing the state government go glimmering, admitted that his party's "refusal to denounce China" would strengthen the hand of his democratic opponents in Kerala's coming elections. In Bombay state, as the...
Last week, as Pakistani educators cast about for ways to solve the sex crisis at Karachi U., one college head imposed a 5-rupee ($1.05) fine on boys and girls caught talking to each other; by week's end he had collected 100 rupees. Most male students, however, saw...
In Baghdad itself, daily bulletins continued to insist that Kassem was recovering nicely from his wounds, would soon leave the hospital. On that happy day, Iraqi citizens were promised free admission to movie theaters, half fare on trains, and free circumcision for their newborn sons. But like any other Arab...
Barely two months ago, in a moment of unwonted honesty, Red China's braggart overlords admitted that the economic achievements of 1958's Great Leap Forward had been vastly inflated, and revised their 1959 production goals downward. But the price of truth proved too painful. Fortnight ago, during...