Word: polese
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unforgotten Crimes. The mistakes Moscow has made in Poland date back to 1938, when Dictator Stalin liquidated almost the entire leadership of the old Polish Communist Party. The Stalin-Hitler pact, by which Germany and Russia partitioned Poland for spoils, the massacre of 10,000 Polish officers in the Katyn...
Now Eratosthenes had all the information he needed. The shadow cast by the vertical pillar at Alexandria would have the same relation to a full circle that the distance from Alexandria to Syene (where sunlight was vertical) would have to the circumference of the earth. The answer: 250,000 stadia...
Hans Kohn, visiting professor of history from CCNY, agreed with Spiro that the Russians are not apt to give in on German reunification. He noted especially the fact that Russia would have to consider the feelings of the Poles and the Czechs, both of whom fear a reunited-Germany.
The hope is that by 1985, 15 million blacks will have been settled in these areas, leaving only a manageable 6,000,000 living in the white man's cities and farm areas-enough to dig his gold, fire his furnaces and run his errands. Said the com mission...
Many British critics think that the author of A Perfect Woman is just about a perfect novelist. At 60, Leslie Poles Hartley couples some of the skill and suavity of Somerset Maugham with a show of sympathetic interest, an emotion that Maugham controls to the point of asphyxiation. Hartley'...