Word: postwar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tsarapkin's "concession," hedged with qualifications, came at the 132nd session in Geneva. Such inchworm progress has been characteristic of all postwar disarmament negotiations. In 14 years of dickering so complex that even the participants have trouble keeping the record straight, East and West have achieved only one concrete measure-a temporary suspension of nuclear testing, which expires, so far as the U.S. is concerned, Dec. 31. The U.S. is talking about resuming underground tests. And France made clear last week at the U.N. that unless "the first three atomic powers renounce their nuclear armament," it intends to explode...
...rooftops of Trieste. Quick-marching into the Piazza dell' Unità, beplumed Bersaglieri were hard put to it to clear a path through the delirious crowd of 250,000 that shook the vast square with endless roars of "Viva l'Italia! Viva Trieste Italiana!" Thus, after nine postwar years as a "free territory," the citizens of the Adriatic port city of Trieste deliriously greeted their reunion with Italy...
...letting the Russians veto the composition of a Finnish Cabinet. Following an election in which the Communists captured 50 of 200 parliamentary seats and emerged as the strongest single party, the republic's anti-Communist forces banded together to form a five-party coalition government. Flouting its postwar treaty pledge of "noninterference in other states' affairs," Moscow brought economic pressure to bear to destroy the coalition and succeeded in forcing the appointment of a new government from which the ministers Moscow disapproved were excluded. Hungary convinced many Finns that in any open quarrel with Russia, their country would...
Pianist Richter-Haaser's postwar reputation spread rapidly; he has played with virtually every major European orchestra, been hailed as the successor to such German greats as Gieseking and Backhaus. Says Richter-Haaser ruefully: "I do not go on stage to play wrong notes. But the important thing is the idea. The piano must not be like a machine...
...wealthy Callies family (paper mills), closely related to the Michelin and Citroen family. With new capital, the company plunged into research, soon turned out a tabulator capable of writing 150 lines a minute when other tabulators were only half as fast. During the war its engineers designed a postwar line of advanced electronic computers, the first of which, the Gamma 3, appeared...