Word: refurbishment
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...intelligence community describes the recent activity as "wriggles" in Cuba. The wriggles appear to date from Soviet Defense Minister Andrei Grechko's trip to Havana last fall and a return visit to Moscow by Fidel Castro's brother Raul last spring. The Soviets agreed to refurbish the Cuban military with everything from new knapsacks to improved, longer-range SA-2 missiles, similar to the ones emplaced in Egypt. Cuba now has 24 SA-2 sites, each with six missiles. In addition, Moscow has upgraded Fidel Castro's air force by supplying a 25-plane squadron...
...boys in the block who have once fought it out often become the fastest of friends-and there are some very big comrades in the bloc with whom Vietnam would rather not get into a fight-that the united Vietnamese will somehow be able a decade hence to refurbish their picture of our George Washington and our other political forefathers and come again also to respect us, the present-day custodians of their political vision of the Age of Enlightenment. May they and the whole world see in us again, after our ordeals of racial and generational cleavage...
...months, the gossip fizzed through the ad world: "Coca-Cola is changing. Coke will have a completely new look." It was no idle rumor. Lippincott & Margulies, the Manhattan design consultants, were hard at work on a multimillion-dollar project intended to refurbish Coca-Cola's image. Says Walter Margulies: "The whole thing has been more secret than the work we did with Admiral Rickover on the Nautilus." Now it is finished, and the company has told the world to prepare for "the most massive change in the graphics of a product that has ever been done...
...Cuernavaca suburbs, where he was impressed with both the pastoral uses of the monks' experimental worship services and the strikingly different religious art that complemented them. The bishop asked the monastery's principal artist, Fray Gabriel Chávez de la Mora, to help him refurbish the city's 400-year-old cathedral. Gloomy Victorian clutter was stripped away, revealing priceless 17th century murals, and the neoclassic high altar was replaced by a simple modernistic sanctuary designed by De la Mora. The result is a stunning example of religious architecture...
Real Newspaper. As an instrument to refurbish the image of Communist unity, the conference was a bust. That very fact, oddly enough, may serve to make Communism seem less sinister to the rest of the world. For what the delegates in effect ratified in Moscow was a decision to tolerate dissent within Communism, thus bringing to the movement a semblance of democracy. It was the first summit in history in which Communists were allowed to disagree with the majority view and could hold to their divergent beliefs without threat of being thrown out of the movement. At the farewell reception...