Word: populars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Molotov, Malenkov and Kaganovich, but especially Malenkov, are directly responsible for the disorganized state of Soviet agriculture during the past several years." Malenkov was also charged with "ignorance that retarded the development of electrical power stations." At week's end Pravda was able to report a "wave of popular wrath...
...proposals, wrote the New York Herald Tribune's Columnist Roscoe Drummond, far from being acclaimed "with enthusiasm and a determination to pick them up and show that the states really want to reverse the tide of political power which flows to Washington, seemed to be about as popular as a stowaway at the captain's ball." Said Pennsylvania's Democratic Governor George Leader (who is prohibited by law from running for re-election): "I don't think the states are doing a very good job with the things they have-education, mental health and a multitude...
...tolerance? Even in the bowdlerized official version of Mao's major "secret" speech, the ominously evocative word "Hungary" cropped up with a frequency which suggested it was much on the chairman's mind. Indicative of Mao's fears was his none-too-veiled reference to popular resistance to Chinese rule in Tibet: "Because conditions in Tibet are not ripe, democratic reforms have not yet been carried out there...
There are many possible reasons why Red China's bosses have chosen to broadcast the attacks of their critics: to siphon off the kind of pent-up popular frustration which led to the Hungarian explosion; to put the fear of the counterrevolution into the lower levels of their own bureaucracy; even, in the case of General Lung's anti-Russian blast, to make a point which the government agrees with but cannot officially accept. But underscoring them all is one fact, ominous to Communists everywhere: Mao noted that in Hungary "the party simply disappeared in a matter...
...happen or how big it will be. Some experts see tapes sweeping disks out of the market in five years; some believe that disks will always account for the bulk of the industry's sales. Victor Chief Recording Engineer William Miltenburg argues that disks will stay necessary for popular music, if nothing else, because record buyers will be unwilling to pay stereo prices for the one-shot pop hits. This raises the question of how far stereo prices can be cut. Today a stereo recording of Tchaikovsky's Sixth Symphony costs a whopping $18.95; the same symphony...