Word: spurts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spurt Up, Trend Down. In any struggle for power between Castro and the Communists, each side has strengths and weaknesses, and very likely there is currently an unsentimental and unresolved alliance. Castro's blunders and the hardships that have resulted have undoubtedly tarnished his hero's image. But he alone still has the charismatic name, the voice, the face, the popular appeal. For their part, the professional Reds have the organizational techniques, the indoctrination textbooks, and a more patient spirit (Roca wanted Castro to lay off the Catholic Church longer, and not to alienate prematurely the technicians needed...
...present, each side has need of the other, but it is a precarious equilibrium, and neither can leave it at that. "If I were plotting a fever chart I'd give Fidel's line a short spurt upward, but surely the trend must point down," says a foreign diplomat in Havana. Working in Roca's favor, say the experts, is the massive indoctrination that has brought 60,000 young Cubans from the countryside to fill expropriated Havana mansions. By day, they learn a trade; by night they learn a Roca brand of Communist discipline. "One day," says...
...second-period spurt led by Pete Kelley gave the varsity basketball team a come-from-behind victory over Columbia Friday, 75 to 67. The second half of the Crimson's weekend was less successful; the quintet lost to Cornell in Ithaca, 82 to 75, Saturday night...
Behind the dividend spurt are a pair of cheering facts about corporate profits: 1) they slipped less during the recent recession than in any other since World War II, and 2) they have snapped back better than in any other postwar recovery. From an annual rate of $47.4 billion in first-quarter 1960, pre-tax profits slid steadily to $40 billion in first-quarter 1961. Virtually all that loss came in the manufacturing sector. But with manufacturing leading the way, the rate went back up to $45.5 billion in second-quarter 1961, then moved on to $47 billion...
...more because it was based on the shallow observation that both he and Utrillo painted city streets. Both also drank. Yet that deprecatory comparison was about the measure of Heldt's renown at the time of his death seven years ago. This week Heldt is enjoying a sudden spurt of fame as the key figure of a new, nonabstract "Berlin School." The critical applause comes from a show in Wiesbaden of the collection of rich Machine-tool Maker Kurt Brandes...