Word: sovietizers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...away, beyond the crumbled desert hills of Pakistan's northwest frontier, past the snow-covered valleys that nestle in the Hindu Kush where Alexander and his Macedonians trod, lay Kabul and the feudal kingdom of Afghanistan (pop. 13 million). The Afghans, bordered by both the Soviet Union and Red China, are uncommitted in the cold war and wooed with aid from both the Soviets and the U.S. Even as Ike's plane winged over the mountains, an Afghan squadron of Russian-made MIGs took off to escort him toward Kabul, and Ike landed at an airfield built...
...Karachi, the streets of Afghanistan were thronged with shouting people, and everywhere-along the roads, and in medieval-looking Kabul-there was evidence of Russian achievement: the road to town was Soviet built, so were a silo and a milling and baking plant, so was a housing project. (U.S. aid has gone mostly for technical-assistance projects in the back country.) In his luncheon toast to the Moslem King, Ike stressed mutual "great spiritual values" and readiness to "advance the cause of freedom." The King, too, told Ike his troubles and seemed delighted that the President could understand his urgent...
...usual fashion of making martyrs out of men who are traitors in their own country, Soviet Russia last month issued a postage stamp honoring Greek Communist Leader Emmanuel Glezos, 37, recently convicted in Greece for spying against his own country (TIME, Aug. 3). To the U.S.S.R.'s Ambassador Mikhail Sergeev, Greece angrily protested the issuance of the stamp. But Moscow replied that it had no responsibility in the matter, since the stamp was issued by the "independent" postal authorities of the U.S.S.R. Not to be outdone, the Greek government last week issued two stamps bearing the image of another...
...wake of his recent statement that Soviet composers like to rehash old Czarist motifs instead of going in new directions, Conductor Leonard Bernstein, lionized in the Soviet Union only three months ago, was drawn and quarter-noted in the newspaper Soviet Culture. It was also hinted that when the hit musical West Side Story is adapted for Soviet consumption, Bernstein's music for the show will be inaudible. Meanwhile, top Russian Composer Tikhon Khrennikov, who toured the U.S. last month (TIME, Nov. 23) with four other leading Soviet musicians, spoke out on his impressions of popular capitalist music. Most...
...growth" subcommittee of Congress, is that at the outset of World War I, Russia was the world's sixth or seventh industrial power. But, said Dulles, "in the short space of 30 years since 1928, despite the ravages of four war years and several years of reconstruction, the Soviet Union has become second." Today, Dulles estimated, Russia's gross national product is around 45% of the U.S.'s G.N.P...