Word: swiped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Taking advantage of a Radio Moscow broadcast in honor of his 70th birthday, Russian Author Ilya Ehrenburg aimed an oblique swipe at his government's persistent but unadmitted discrimination against Jews. Said Ehrenburg: "I am proud of the fact that I am an ordinary Russian writer. But my passport [for travel inside Russia] states that I am not a Russian but a Jew. As long as even one anti-Semite exists in the world, I shall proudly reply to any question as to my nationality...
Thus, in a Look Magazine excerpt from his new book, Mr. Citizen, Harry Truman this week explains his longstanding dislike of Adlai Stevenson, and at the same time, takes a neatly timed swipe at Stevenson's chances for the 1960 nomination. He agreed to support Stevenson in 1952, he says, but he was sorry afterward. Stevenson's campaign, Truman claims, drifted so far from the Democratic program of Franklin Roosevelt (and Harry Truman) that it cost the party at least 3,000,000 votes. Before the convention in 1956, Truman goes on, "I tried as gently...
...Struggle, etc. raided a shop operated by one Anna Lazaryeva, discovered $9,250 worth of yarn, 150 sweaters and $7,500 in cash; a few doors away a second shop was discovered producing 100 blouses a day. The operators, said Krokodil, suffer from no shortage: state textile-industry employees swipe huge amounts of wool from government plants, resell it at a tidy profit to black-marketeers...
Still looking pale and sickly after major abdominal surgery (TIME, March 28), British Laborite Aneurin Bevan, 62, issued assurances that he has no plans to write his memoirs, then took a spirited swipe at those who so much as read that sort of thing. He singled out a favorite target: Britain's Tory Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. Said Bevan: "I understand that Macmillan reads political biographies. I have never been able to achieve that credulity. My experience of public life has taught me to know that most of them are entirely unreliable. I would rather take my fiction straight...
...future paid off handsomely. Magnavox sales jumped 36% to $107 million in 1959, and profits rose 85% to $4,500,000. The company now sells 20% to 25% of all stereo sets over $250, expects stereo sales alone to hit $70 million in 1960. Says Freimann, in a swipe at competitors : "There's been a tremendous confusion about what stereo is supposed to mean. One set I know of has 15 knobs, and some advertisers say you can only hear stereo properly if you sit in the middle of the room. That's ridiculous. The fact about stereo...