Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...corn. He is full of it. On the last lap of his ten-day state visit to Poland (TIME, July 27), before flying home to Moscow and Richard Nixon, Khrushchev tore up his official itinerary. Instead of a visit to a Poznan factory where the Polish rebellion against Communist rule began in June 1956, Khrushchev insisted on making an impromptu inspection of one of Poland's corn-growing cooperative farms. As Khrushchev and Polish Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka climbed out of their black limousine, Western correspondents (whom Khrushchev jovially called "my sputniks") confidently started to follow them. They were roughly...
...facts about the association: it was formed at Letchworth in 1950, and it now has about 1,000 members indulging, as a matter of principle, in 'topical conversation with strangers of either sex to relieve boredom when traveling.' The association badge, with a copy of the rule book, costs five shillings a year. Once the badge-silver lettering on a blue background-is recognized, members are at liberty to start talking. The rules say the conversation is to be 'discontinued' at the end of a journey 'unless by mutual consent'-a saving clause...
...apparent conflict of interest: Banker Adolphe H. Wenzell had served at the same time as 1) a vice president of New York's First Boston Corp., a Dixon-Yates financing agent, and 2) a Budget Bureau consultant on the contract. Then Attorney General Herbert Brownell went on to rule that Dixon-Yates investors were not even entitled to payment for costs already incurred, because Wen-zell's dual role made the contract invalid. The Dixon-Yates utility firms went to court to recover the costs...
...obscure country lawyer. In his old job as Minister of Revolutionary Laws, Dorticós had the humble job of drafting decrees. In his new job (he cut the salary to $2,500 a month), he will be the rubber stamp for Castro's one-man rule-or else...
...wealthy class, have invested in land and property . . . and they now see themselves stripped of their possessions. They are greatly disillusioned." rule. Wrote he: "Premier Castro is avoiding elections in Cuba for two reasons. He feels that his social revolution now has dynamism and vast popular consent, and he does not want to interrupt the process. Moreover, most observers would agree that Cubans today do not want elections...