Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Economic Adventurism. Top Polish Planner Seweryn Bialer, who, before he defected to the West last year, had access to minutes of Kremlin meetings, makes the significant point that for all of Mikoyan's helpful contributions to Khrushchev's foreign policy, the astute Armenian has taken care not to associate himself too conspicuously with Khrushchev's domestic policy. This policy, which Bialer characterizes as "sheer economic adventurism," proclaims the highest priority simultaneously for heavy industry, for consumer goods and for agriculture, and bases its hopes of fulfillment not on basic expansion of plant but on increased efficiency...
CURBS ON EXPORTS to Poland will be greatly eased. Commerce Department is lifting restrictions on a wide list of industrial and farm items, will even consider exporting such strategic goods as petroleum, magnesium, machine tools, electronic components, etc. Department hopes to accelerate U.S.-Polish trade, expects it to jump 130% to about $75 million this year...
...Arts, will kick off in November with Perelman's treatment of The Changing Ways of Love over the past 30 years. Arts will also tackle: Ernest Hemingway, Evangelism, the Ray Bradbury stories and The Nutcracker Suite. Critic John Crosby, currently on leave from his TV syndicated column to polish up on his broadcast manners, will host. The Twentieth Century has made one of TV's most extensive film searches to document great events and personalities: Winston Churchill, Douglas MacArthur, the German V-2 rocket, the Nürnberg trials, the love story of the Duke and Duchess...
...spit-&-polish naval attache who takes over the refloated ship after the Amethyst's captain dies of his wounds, Richard Todd is so convincing that the movie conveys a real-thing flavor. It car ries all the blood-and-sweat conviction of a candid film chronicle made on the spot...
...acting, but the movie does sag a bit into detect able histrionics when Akim Tamiroff, as a cunning Red warlord, shows up as a negotiator and puts on a dazzling display of inscrutability. The months wear on, and Lieut. Commander Todd begins to understand the superiority of spit to polish. At last, with the courage of a heart made whole, Todd runs the battered vessel past artillery-lined riverbanks on a wild, 140-mile nighttime dash to sea. It is all history now, but the capable direction of Michael (Around the World in 80 Days) Anderson has made it happen...