Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last two late and loathed secret police chiefs had gone to their deaths in the month of December. Would Serov share their fate, or be allowed a peaceful retirement to think about all his old victims? Even though Serov is an old collaborator of Khrushchev's, Nikita is said to have little liking for him. Serov's removal was generally regarded as a show of liberalization by Khrushchev before next month's 21st Party Congress. Other more complex motivations may be involved, but dictators cannot be blamed, for their own safety, for not wanting to have...
Italy. Left-of-Center Christian Democratic Premier Amintore Fanfani was the victim of an old Italian parliamentary game he used to be very familiar with. He lost two votes on minor issues because right-wing members of his own party voted in secret against him. He called for an open vote of confidence, won it by eight votes. At the first opportunity to vote in secret again-a bill on wholesale food regulations-he lost again last week. By these methods a Premier may survive for a time, but his authority is severely weakened. One day he falls...
...consistories at which Pope John XXIII elevates 23 prelates to the College of Cardinals this week are an elaborate series of ceremonies taking place over a four-day period. First comes a secret consistory at which the Pope recites to the old cardinals the names of those he proposes to elevate. The cardinals nod their assent. Immediately, messengers fan out to deliver the biglietto-the letter informing each cardinal-elect of his elevation (tradition demands that he feign surprise on receiving the letter). Two days later the new cardinals join the Pope at an "intimate" consistory, during which he hands...
...natural heavyweight, he somehow manages to shed enough poundage from an already fat-spare frame to make the 175 lb. limit for light-heavyweight title defenses. For Durelle, Archie shrank from 208 to 174 without noticeable strain or impairment of his powerful punch. He slyly insists he got a secret reducing formula while fighting in Australia years ago, gave an aborigine a red turtlenecked sweater for it. Says Archie: "I figured they had the straight dope. All the time I was there, I never saw a fat aborigine...
LOLITA, by Vladimir Nabokov. The year's most controversial novel and also, by all odds, the best written. Simply as the story of a perverted sexual adventure, it is shocking. As an exploration of the secret places of the heart, mind and spirit, ruled by terrible private devils, it moves beyond shock into compassion...