Word: stalinize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...confidant. Djilas has been sniping at Communist repression since the early 1950s, and for his efforts he has spent 81 of the last ten years in Yugoslavia's dank Sremska Mitrovica prison, where he wrote the major part of two blistering books, The New Class and Conversations with Stalin, which caused something of a sensation when they were published in the West. Last week Tito granted Djilas a pardon, and the writer was free once again. For how long was anyone's guess...
...Momentarily I expect someone to say, 'Don't he look natural?' " Now 87, Jimmy Byrnes and Maude, his wife of 60 years, were still looking mighty spry as they posed in his office under the portraits of some of Jimmy's old acquaintances-Molotov, Roosevelt, Stalin and Eisenhower. Long retired from statecraft, Jim keeps active by overseeing the James F. Byrnes Foundation, which he organized in 1947 to provide college scholarships for needy students. The youngsters, in turn, have given the childless Byrneses a bronze plaque inscribed: "To Mom and Pop Byrnes from your foundation children...
Discussing economics with a visiting Charles de Gaulle in 1944, Joseph Stalin once pointed out a young aide with a crew cut and mournful mien, and said: "I don't know anything. But this man-he is the whole plan." When Aleksei Kosygin became Premier of the U.S.S.R. 20 years later, his rise was seen as the coming to power of a new breed of managerial robot. Last week Stalin's glum young associate turned out to be a lively, even likable robot. In the second week of his official visit to France, Kosygin quipped and capered...
...nationally televised speech be fore a mass rally of cheering Georgians, Brezhnev praised the republic for "successes in economic and cultural construction," paid tight-lipped tribute to Stalin for his "distinguished role in the course of the revolutionary struggle...
...that fact, Eastern Europe today is caught up in a brutal but visionary economic revolution. From the Baltic to the Black Sea, reforms - in various degrees and diverging directions - are rippling through all East European countries. If the reforms succeed, they will not only break the glacial grip of Stalin ist "command economics" but reshape the societies and political structures of the Continent's entire Communist world...