Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...General Václav Prchlik from his party post as chief of security for the army back to strictly military duties. The Russians had accused Prchlik, who recently demanded revisions in the Warsaw Pact command, of leaking the pact's military secrets. He did not lose his army rank, and his job was due to be abolished anyway under coming reforms. Nevertheless, his removal was a victory not only for the Russians but also for the conservatives in Prague whom Moscow would like to see unseat Dubček. For Prchlik was the general who had prevented a January...
...density living is likely to be the style of the future. "All the major cities are as alive and as likely to keep growing as a tropical rain forest," declares Nat Owings. "There is no possibility of their dying. They are viable, they are vibrant and their growth is rank." By the year 2000, some 400 million Americans will be living in roughly the same areas as today. The question is: Can they do so and remain more or less human? "The answer," says Owings, "has to be yes, and the strategy of accomplishment must come in the next...
...surrealists, Miró was already a near-legendary figure among his fellow painters by the 1930s. But even in the 1960s, there are still critics who argue that his art is too shallow, too cheerful, too clever and, above all, too personal and too eclectic to rank as truly great...
...critic took exception to an off-Broadway play, The American Pig, which ridicules life in the U.S. "The idea of satirizing vulgarity by being more vulgar backfires," wrote the critic. "If you murder art-somebody is going to pay for it." In the old days, it would have been rank heresy for a Communist to value art above social content...
Aeroflot teams had worked on the 122-passenger plane for three weeks. A select crew was picked, including Pilot Boris Egorov, 48, a veteran who holds the rank of Meritorious Flyer of the U.S.S.R. There were also four of the prettiest-all things being relative-stewardesses in Aeroflot's big (248,000 route miles) system. The stewardesses' first names were Maya, Gay, Lena and Natasha...