Word: russianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...themselves some of the items laid out in a mouth-watering display of U.S. consumer goods at the first U.S. exhibit to appear at Communist Poland's annual International Trade Fair. To hold back the crowds, the exhibit had to be closed briefly every few hours-while the Russian exhibit went begging. See FOREIGN NEWS, Nylon Wonderland...
...Stassen was a sheaf of crackling cables from U.S. embassies in Western Europe. Stassen, the complaint ran, had pulled a diplomatic blooper, and the European allies were miffed. The blooper: Stassen, after promising Western partners that he would consult with them before making any specific disarmament proposals to the Russians, had launched into private talks with Russia's disarmament representative, Valerian Zorin (architect of the Russian takeover of Czechoslovakia...
...realm of political give and take. And in this atmosphere it will have the best chance to date of proving whatever promise it may have. If Western European governments were edgy about Stassen's private meetings with Zorin, they stood firm and tough in the face of Russian-inspired propaganda on the horrors of the H-bomb. The President of the U.S. was hopeful enough about the disarmament talks to make them a major effort of his Administration, and he felt tough enough about them to fight for the biggest peacetime defense budget in U.S. history...
...reason. Argentines guessed that a wave of stay-where-you-are letters from disappointed earlier repatriates had soured Moscow on the idea of large-scale returns. Moreover, the campaign to persuade Argentines to return has frequently backfired. Latest mishap: a 17-year-old boy who ran away from his Russian-born parents, rather than return with them to their homeland, is still hiding out in Buenos Aires...
Died. Louise Schroeder, 70, mild-mannered spinster who gained international admiration as Berlin's Acting Lord Mayor (1947-48) during months of the taut, East-West political contest for the city, climaxed by the Russian blockade and the Allied airlift that broke it; of a heart attack; in Berlin...