Word: socialists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eleven years since it won independence from Britain, Ceylon has had a cautious, conservative government and a wild-eyed Socialist one. Last week, in the third year of the Socialist administration of frail, fidgety Premier Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike, 60, Ceylon sweltered in the pre-monsoon heat. In the capital city of Colombo, the stores were packed with luxury goods, the streets jammed with cars, the sidewalks filled with smiling people and saffron-robed Buddhist monks under black umbrellas. In the lush countryside there were signs of the paralyzing drought that had lasted for months. But the island...
...Nikita Khrushchev to a West German Socialist delegation...
...Hungarian revolt, when farmers up and left the collectives, the Communist leaders have had a hard time getting them back. Last December Hungary's Party Boss Janos Kadar confessed to Moscow that only 17% of the land was collectivized, and added, "We know we are behind other Socialist countries . . . but we are moving ahead as quickly...
Chen's feat was the latest product of the ten-year athletic program launched by Red China's Mao Tse-tung with the avowed intention of producing citizens "capable of more and harder work in China's socialist reconstruction." Red China's muscled minions, according to the Peking press, "resolutely pledged themselves to overcome all difficulties and all individualist ideas existing in their innermost minds, and strive to become the vanguard on the physical-culture front." Chen himself gave due credit to patriotic inspiration. "During the jerk event, I was somewhat nervous," said he, "but just...
...misunderstandings. She suffers from tonsilitis, a nervous breakdown and the unwelcome attentions of matchmakers. Finally she sets out on a trip to Britain s surviving Crown Colony of Hong Kong, as secretary to a British woman M.P. (the lady may or may not be intended to resemble that noted Socialist amazon. Dr. Edith Summerskill, who took a trip to explore the wonders of Mao's China...