Word: sochi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...traveling choice is still wide. The tourist can visit 27 Soviet cities on any of 45 Intourist itineraries, ranging from five to 23 days. The main travel circuit includes Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Tbilisi (the Eastern-flavored capital of Soviet Georgia), and the seaside resorts of the Black Sea (Sochi, Sukhumi, Yalta). More adventurous tourists can go to Riga, capital of Latvia; Irkutsk, the burgeoning capital of eastern Siberia; or far east to Tashkent and Alma-Ata. Intourist will also permit tourists to hunt in the Crimean game preserves, once reserved for Soviet V.I.P.s...
...came the riots at Poznan. Someone in Moscow remembered Gomulka, the one man who, because of his war record, his persecution, but most of all his patriotism, could perhaps win public sympathy and stem the rising tide of revolt. Ailing Gomulka was taken from his cottage and sent to Sochi on the Black Sea for recuperation. But when the Politburo invited him to become party secretary he said: "I do not wish to enter your Politburo. The Politburo I enter will have to be changed entirely...
...paid more attention to him than to Khrushchev at his side (after all, had not Tito, alone of all those present, successfully defied Stalin?). Tito, for his part, assured the crowds at Kiev: "We have abandoned all that was bad between us," and at the Black Sea resort of Sochi he cried: "I feel at home in the Soviet Union, because we are part of the same family, the family of Socialism." And in Moscow he said, "We never betrayed the cause for which we struggled under our Communist Party." Tito was doing his best to show...
Robert Motherwell's Western Air is cubism smashed flat and with a couple of sky-holes poked through it. It demonstrates how abstract expressionism can make violent use of yesterday's art furniture. Arshile Gorky's Garden in Sochi uses Miro-like amoeba shapes to express an infant memory...
...easy task to transform the cold, cruel look of Soviet Communism without altering its substance, and Khrushchev and Bulganin were obviously tuckered out from the months of effort it had required. Last week both left Moscow for a vacation; the Party boss went to Yalta and the Premier to Sochi in the Caucasus...