Word: sia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russia's birth rate, according to the yearbook, was 25.3 per thousand in 1958 v. a mere 24.3 per thousand for the U.S., and only 7.2 Russians per thousand died last year while the U.S. mortality rate was 9.5 per thou sand. Furthermore, by the statistics, Rus sia had more marriages (12.5 per thou sand v. 8.3 per thousand for the U.S.) and fewer divorces (.9 per thousand v. 2.3 per thousand...
...deal, and four to make a peace treaty, Russia had it in its power to make Geneva a failure. But diplomacy is a continuous game, and there are other ways of scoring it than at the end of each inning. It took 400 seemingly fruitless meetings to end Rus sia's obduracy and achieve an independent Austria; a similar process of exploration, cross-questioning and testing of intentions would be needed if mutual agreement, in stead of the caprice of history, is to settle the future of Germany and of European security. Anyone who took the trouble to study...
WHILE junketing around the U.S. last week, Rus sia's Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) put one courtesy call at the top of his list-a special visit to Cyrus Stephen Eaton, 75, Cleveland multi millionaire and Red Boss Khrushchev's favorite capitalist...
...peasants' state and must serve the construction of socialism." In these blunt terms, the East German government defines the functions of the nation's "institutions of higher education." In practice, the definition means that East German universities bar the "nonproductive" (i.e., politically suspect), bourgeois "intelligent sia" in favor of the loyal sons and daughters of the "peasants' and workers' class...
...more of a feeling than a conception based on hard fact." On a four-day state visit to Yugoslavia, the Turk was doing his best to persuade the third partner in the three-ply Balkan pact (Turkey-Greece-Yugoslavia) to forget its dreams of peaceful coexistence with Rus sia and to cast its lot with the Western nations in NATO, as Greece and Turkey have done. In a succession of state banquets, his hosts listened respectfully, protested their deep friendship, but acted as if the Balkan pact was primarily cultural and economic, and implied that to talk of military matters...