Word: sovietized
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...SOVIET PLANNING...
...always had a great fondness for Bloody Marys. But it was very hard to get tomato juice in Russia,” Bernard M. Gwertzman ’57 says as he remembers his days as a foreign correspondent in the Soviet Union. “The only tomato juice was imported from Bulgaria. It wasn’t reliable...
...Gwertzman, once managing editor for The Crimson, grew familiar with Russia despite the unpredictable supply of tomato juice. As a graduate student at Harvard, Gwertzman participated in an exchange program with the Soviet Union. Years later, he returned to Russia as the bureau chief for The New York Times...
...Hungary’s revolt against its pro-Soviet government is quashed by Russian tanks. In response, Harvard students form the Harvard Freedom Council. The council organizes film screenings and attempts to raise money to have one Hungarian student study at Harvard each year...
...Carter, also 83, praised Graham as a boundary-breaking preacher who had the greatest influence on his own spiritual life. Graham was the "first evangelist of any stature" who penetrated the Iron Curtain, starting with a crusade in Hungary in 1977 and eventually preaching four times in the Soviet Union. Concluded Carter, "I'm just one of tens of millions of people whose spiritual life has been shaped by Billy Graham...