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...plans for agriculture and industry. Nikita's reply was to organize some 514,000 "discussion" meetings across the country, in which his loyal party workers exhorted the comrades to back Nikita's dreams of Russia's future. Nikita himself launched an attack on Moscow's desk-bound administrators. "Bureaucrats sprout like mushrooms after a rainfall," cried Nikita. In May the Supreme Soviet voted to hand over industrial control to Khrushchev by scattering Moscow's managerial elite among 105 new economic regional councils?all tightly supervised by his regional party henchmen...
...delightful vignettes of contemporary 16th century life, showing cardplaying in winter, early planting in March, harvest in July and cattle-slaughtering in October. Although a minor art, such miniature scenes are precious records of everyday secular life over the changing seasons. As such, it pushed forth a hardy sprout in succeeding centuries, blossoming into the full-scale landscapes and genre scenes that along with classical allegory and religious painting became the central concern of later artists...
Henry Cabot Lodge, who that year was giving his all as Ike's preconvention campaign manager, never quite knew what hit him. Kennedys seemed to sprout up all over Massachusetts, making speeches, holding lavish tea parties, starting chain-telephone campaigns, appearing on television ("Coffee with the Kennedys"). Toward the end, State Senator John Powers, then and now a top Kennedy lieutenant, urged that Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy be brought into the campaign. "But she's a grandmother," objected Joe Kennedy. "That's all right," said Powers. "She's a Gold Star mother, the mother...
...brick Georgian mansion in northwest Washington, where he lives with his wife Cynthia (a daughter of Davis Cup Donor Dwight Davis) and three children (Cynthia, 12; William McC. Ill, 9; Diana, 7), Martin spends his evenings poring over the financial reports that sprout in 2-ft. stacks on his mahogany desk and bookshelves at the Fed. Punctually at n o'clock, Martin goes...
...place their orders (from 20 to 60 dresses each at prices ranging from $700 to $3,000). Manufacturers from Manhattan's Seventh Avenue were there to buy dresses for reproduction (up to $1,800 for an evening gown);copyists spied out the buttons, bows and furbelows that will sprout on readymade clothes from Brisbane to Bonn this winter...