Word: thirds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Having put literature in its secondary place, Khrushchev was inclined to appear forgiving to erring authors who were willing to be tamed. At the Third Soviet Writers Congress in Moscow, which he addressed last week, three authors who had been chided in the past (including Ilya Ehrenburg) were "rehabilitated" by the writers' union. The "bearers of revisionist opinions," proclaimed Khrushchev, "have suffered a complete fiasco," and it is now time for "other Soviet writers to help those who have committed errors and recognized them to rejoin the big family of authors. The angels of reconciliation are already flying...
...tidily balanced, his people are still poor, and increasingly fed up with the lack of freedom and the harsh police methods of Salazar's paternal dictatorship. Portugal's money is stronger than the dollar, and prices are stable because the government holds down wages, but one-third of Portugal's 9,000,000 people live in villages with neither paved roads nor electricity. Last week Lisbon was afire with reports that the old leader, hurt and bewildered by mounting criticism, was thinking of stepping down...
...Almost a third of the University's Experimenters will go to the Experiment's "pioneer" countries. Four students will be in the Yugoslavian group, led by a Harvard-Radcliffe couple, Stephen Anderson 3G and Margaret Bennet Anderson '59. Four others will travel to Japan...
Kirkland House has won the Straus Trophy, emblematic of House intramural athletic supremacy, for the third straight year. This marks the eleventh time in the 22-year history of the trophy that Kirkland...
...third, less happy, opinion of retirement is voiced by Percy W. Bridgman, Higgins University Professor, Emeritus. "You'll hear many different views on retirement," he says, "I don't like it." The physicist, who won the Nobel Prize in 1946, has been restless since his retirement because he has not been able to continue doing independent scientific research...