Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What the Communists are up to in Berlin was made plain at midweek by Soviet Ambassador to East Germany Georgy M. Pushkin. In identical notes to the U.S., Britain and France, Pushkin rejected their joint protest over the four-hour detention by East Berlin police of two U.S. Congressmen (TIME, Dec. 12) and added ominously: "East Germany now . . . regulates . . . the lines of communication between [West Germany] and West Berlin." In effect, Pushkin was telling the West: if you want barge permits and free road traffic, apply to the East German Communists; it's no longer any business of ours...
Never Go Back. Whether from genuine persuasion or from fear, some followed the injunction. One who had entertained some doubt as to whether Russian women habitually wore sable returned thoroughly persuaded. "The plain facts were before us," he said. "There is such a country in the world, and the lives of its people are happy." But others were less convinced. One former Cantonese girl, returning with a set of printed postcards given her by a friend, was grilled for an hour at the border by agitated Communist officials demanding to know where she had hidden her camera and negatives...
Uruguay's Luis Batlle Berres, as a onetime journalist and present President of a country where free speech is proudly maintained, is a man who likes plain talk...
Last week, as he moved through the maze of flowery welcomes and formal functions that are the lot of leaders of friendly nations on state visits to the U.S., Batlle Berres found time to do a bit of plain talking...
...School made it plain that it would not accept applicants whose college training was over-specialized, he said, there might be some salutary reaction on the part of the colleges and undergraduates...