Word: rumania
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...somehow learned to write, and from 1904 until his death last year turned out 120 books, became one of his country's most famous authors. He was in no sense an apolitical artist - in fact, he served as president of the first Presidium when the Russians forcibly converted Rumania to Communism in 1947 (which helps explain why translations of his work are now offered as the first fruit of a new cultural exchange agreement between Ru mania...
Said one woman: "Why else did Gomulka go to Moscow?" Two Problems. Polish Party Boss Gomulka was not the only satellite leader to make the trip. Summoned unexpectedly to the Kremlin last week were the bosses of the Soviet Union's other dependencies -East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Bulgaria and Hungary. Reason for the conclave: a top-level meeting of COMECON (Council for Mutual Economic Assistance), the lame, 13-year-old Communist-bloc alliance originally designed by Stalin as an answer to the Marshall Plan. The COMECON agenda was, as usual, secret, but obviously two acute problems had converged...
During a visit to Toledo some years ago, former King Michael of Rumania voiced astonishment at the way the citizens addressed Mayor Michael Di Salle as "Mike." In old Europe, marveled the ex-monarch, such familiarity toward a high public official would be unthinkable. "Maybe so," Mayor Di Salle replied, "but if your people had called you Mike, you might still be King...
...Wales arrived in 1919, Whalen startled the world by ordering tons of confetti to be poured upon the parade from the windows over Lower Broadway, and from that day on, a Ticker-Tape Parade was deemed the only proper demonstration of affection for a conquering hero. Queen Marie of Rumania got it, and so did President Wilson, Gen eral Pershing, Bobby Jones, Connie Mack, Albert Einstein, Eisenhower, Truman, MacArthur. and scores and scores of others. All the while, under seven mayors, Whalen served the city without salary...
...foothills of Rumania's Transylvanian Alps 35 miles from Bucharest, Ploesti was called by Winston Churchill "the taproot of German might." From its oil refineries came one-third of the aviation gasoline, benzine and lubricants that kept Adolf Hitler's military machine running. To protect Ploesti from air at tack, the Germans had made it into a colossal land battleship. A ring of heavy antiaircraft guns formed a perimeter around the refineries that circled the city; lighter flak guns were concealed in hay stacks and groves, mounted on factories, bridges, water towers and church steeples on the target...