Word: russianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...result was a cut of about $5.5 billion from the Administration's $72 billion budget. But the cost of economy-at-any-price may have been high. In the year of the Russian ICBM. the 85th Congress lopped $2.4 billion from the $36.1 billion requested by the Defense Department, virtually scuttled the U.S. Information Agency (cutting its appropriations by $48 million to $96 million), passed a $3.4 billion foreign aid bill - about $1 billion less than President Eisenhower had deemed necessary to the security of the free world...
...week when Russian science sounded very sure of itself, Khrushchev's speeches showed that a Communist society may be able to put together a missile, but it still has a long way to go in running a nation...
...Stalin-style treason "trial" of his fallen rival. But Soviet specialists in the West do not think that Khrushchev wants a show trial at this point: they suspect that he may simply have concluded that Malenkov's reputation needs further blackening. Malenkov is still identified in the Russian public mind with the promise of more goods and fewer cops-a program which Khrushchev opposed but now wants to identify...
...Unionistic Congress of the Roman Catholic Church at St. Procopius Abbey in Lisle. Ill., 125 delegates discussed hopes for the return of all Christians to the Roman Catholic fold-especially those who "left the church as a result of the Eastern schism of 1054." i.e., the Greek and Russian Orthodox Churches. In preparation for the day when Roman Catholicism may once again be free to teach and preach in Russia, monks are in training in the Catholic Eastern Rite at Holy Trinity Priory near Pittsburgh, as well as at Fordham and in Rome. The Russian Orthodox Church would have been...
...Theodore Adams of Richmond (TIME, Dec. 5, 1955), president of the alliance, charged that Baptists are being persecuted in many Latin countries-especially Spain and Colombia. But in Russia, reported Moscow's red-bearded Rev. Yakov Zhidkov, Baptists are doing nicely. Each year, he said, the Russian Baptist Church gains 10,000 to 15,000 members. He added blandly: "Under the Russian constitution all religions have equal freedom of worship. The atheists have freedom too, and they have places where they teach atheism." Said the Rev. Alexander Kircun of Warsaw: "We have baptisms out of doors by the river...