Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the Russians have stewed about the $13,000 American home to be shown at the U.S. exhibition that is to be opened by Vice President Nixon in Moscow July 25, no one can expect U.S. consumers to envy the Russian products on display in Manhattan...
...Emphasis. Most of the propaganda is not so obvious; the Russians are content to let their products make their case. There are elaborate table models of heavy Russian industrial units: an integrated steel plant sprawls over a 450-sq.-ft. area: there are models of a plastics and synthetic-rubber complex and an offshore drilling platform that stands on hundreds of stilts in the Caspian Sea. In an area called "Atoms for Peace," the Russians show a 15-ft. model of the icebreaker Lenin...
...Envy. When it comes to consumer goods, there is no doubt that the Russians are far behind. The textiles-mostly thick, heavy-textured woolen suits-a"e more impressive for their usefulness against the Russian winter than for their styles, which are clumsy attempts to copy Western designs. The Russian TV sets might have come out of U.S. living rooms (one bore the Russian brand name Admiral). The Russian cars looked like copies of small West European autos...
Died. Bela Kovacs, 53, stubborn 20th century Hungary freedom fighter who battled the Nazis, then the Communists, always against hopeless odds, became the embodiment of democratic hope in Hungary; of internal complications resulting from nine years in a Russian prison; in Pecs, Hungary. A leader of Hungary's underground in World War II, stocky, peasant-reared Kovacs emerged as a dominant figure in the postwar period, led a coalition of peasants and the urban middle class (Smallholders Party) to a smashing victory over the Communists in the 1945 free elections. When the Red army moved into Hungary, it threw...
...while trying to hijack Goya's The Second of May, from the Prado. In the current fable, a brilliant Chinese disciple of Pavlov-a sort of Marxist Dr. Fu Manchu-directs the capture, brainwashing and reflex-conditioning of an entire American patrol during the Korean war. Before grinning Russian brasshats, he shows off his success. The Americans puff contentedly on yak dung cigarettes and delicately avoid G.I. profanity-they imagine they are attending a meeting of the garden club in Spring Valley, N.J. They are so thoroughly Pavloved, in fact, that they are ready to commit murder on signal...