Word: spectaculars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bevan halted at the door. It was snowing outside. As he hesitated, his father put an arm around his shoulder and said: "Come back, son, there's always a seat at the fireside." Since that day, Nye Bevan's fiery arrivals and quarrelsome departures have played a spectacular part in British Labor politics. In the last two years he has known to the full what it is like to be out side in the cold. But last week a fatherly British Labor Party threw its arm about the burly shoulders of Rebel Bevan, now 58, and gave...
...World War II, after the spectacular failure in Spain, Serov, Pedro, Walter & Co. had remained faithful Stalinists, though their ways parted. Tito in Yugoslavia organized a Communist-controlled partisan army; Serov back in Russia rounded out his NKVD career as the liquidator of minority nationalities, numbering some millions of people who saw the war as a chance to throw off the Soviet yoke; Pedro became a big wheel in Moscow's Free Germany Committee, and later, under the name of Erno Gero, Stalin's agent in Hungary. When Tito, protected by his 33-division Yugoslav army, broke with...
...mean final disintegration of the Soviet empire. In opposition to this view stands First Party Secretary Khrushchev, backed by Presidium Member Mikoyan and other top anti-Stalinists, who believe that a certain autonomy must be given the satellite and foreign parties-and have been giving it. .Khrushchev's spectacular destalinization program launched last February gave him a dramatic lead over the old-line Stalin ists, but since then the Poznan riots (see box) and Soviet army leaders' nervousness about losing grip in the satellites are reckoned to have set him back...
...kind of spectacular resourcefulness that the nation's football men recognize as a Daugherty specialty, a resourcefulness that has made him, in the short space of three years, a marked and admired man in a savagely competitive trade. But as Daugherty fought his way across the swirling crowd on the field to offer his condolences to Stanford's Coach Chuck Taylor, nobody recognized him. Once the game is over, Daugherty looks like anything but a big-time football coach...
Ford Star Jubilee (Sat. 9:30 p.m., CBS). Cole Porter spectacular...