Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into retirement the babushka-topped, overall-clad street cleaners who once were its only traffic. Red Coca-Cola trucks bustle about town, carting the bubbly produce from three local bottling plants. In such cafes as the Astoria and the Alenmak, where only two years ago the twist was a reform-school offense, big-beat music blares from well-stocked jukeboxes (current top hit: Get off of My Cloud...
Bulgaria's Todor Zhivkov may still toady to the Kremlin's foreign-policy wishes (see above), but when it comes to internal matters, he is as reform-minded as any other Eastern European...
...Bulgarian Party Congress last week, Zhivkov proudly detailed "an all-round upsurge" in the nation's economy - the product of a quiet three-year-old reform experiment that has placed 60% of Bulgaria's industry on a profit-incentive basis...
...late as the 1920s and 1930s, American cooking was still a homely affair, and a reform was long overdue. The great shift in U.S. home cooking did not take place until the end of World War II rationing. The postwar travel boom brought millions of U.S. tourists back from Europe with their tastes broadened and sharpened by what they had eaten there. At the same time, a host of kitchen aids, from dishwashers, pressure cookers, blenders and Deepfreeze units to the latest nonstick Teflon pans, were taking the drudgery out of cooking...
...Sistine Chapel-where Popes are elected and many solemn church decisions announced-Paul VI last week summoned delegates of the Jesuit General Congregation that for two months has been debating the reform of the order traditionally regarded as Roman Catholicism's highly disciplined and educated shock troops. To outsiders, the renewal effort has seemed dryly procedural and strikingly inconclusive; Paul's surprising purpose was to denounce sternly the "strange and sinister suggestions" that he detected in the discussions...