Word: thekremlin
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...though his term was characterized by thehealthy growth of Harvard's facilities, facultiesand international reputation, Conant left theUniversity at a moment of crisis. In 1953, highereducation was under siege from Sen. JosephMcCarthy and his red-hunting cohorts, who hadparticularly targeted what they called "theKremlin on the Charles." Even Conant had beenbrowbeaten into declaring his opposition to hiringknown Communists...
Still, the Soviet leader's platform has yieldedto the demands of political reformers--includingthe thousands of people who gathered near theKremlin wall Sunday--by removing the party'smonopoly and advancing to this summer a partycongress that will be empowered to clear outconservatives on the Central Committee...
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