Word: turnings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the convoy arrived at the austere Soviet embassy on Washington's Sixteenth Street, the sidewalk was jammed with photographers and newsmen, and it was Mikoyan's turn to answer questions. When was he going to see Secretary of State John Foster Dulles? "Tomorrow." Who else was he going to see in the U.S.? Replied Mikoyan with a smile: "You'll find out in time...
...knowledge that Nikita Khrushchev must think this is a poor way to run a socialist country, Gomulka must do a delicate dance. Just before his Moscow trip last fall, he proclaimed that renewed collectivization "is inevitable." Immediately, private farmers began slaughtering livestock to avoid being forced to turn it over to the state. They sold so many calves on the open market that Poland, glutted with meat in 1958, faces a meat shortage...
...Government. From Santiago, Castro proclaimed Judge Manuel Urrutia President of Cuba. Urrutia in turn named Castro head of the armed forces and appointed a Cabinet of rebel professors, doctors and lawyers, including one man called the Minister in Charge of Recovering Stolen Government Property. Castro will doubtless be the biggest voice in the land for some time to come, and he gave signs of capricious temper. On his orders, Havana was closed down until early this week by a pointless general strike that cut food supplies and kept nerves on edge...
Once chosen by a jury including Pianist Artur Rubinstein to play on a radio teenage talent program (Prokofiev. Debussy), Brooklyn-born Neil Sedaka explains his turn from serious music in a flack-flavored burst of prose: "The kids who used to throw rocks at me now roll with me." Sedaka's lyrics, like those of his contemporaries, have the air of frenzied discontent that hooks the teen trade. "Today," says one record executive, "you gotta have Weltschmerz with the beat...
Soft & Sweet. NBC is beefing up its programing, hopes to produce shows so attractive that its affiliates will have no excuse to turn them down. NBC Radio's Executive Vice President Matthew J. Culligan sells his product with a highly polished Madison Avenue pitch. His patter is as distinctive as his black eyepatch, a souvenir of a losing scrap with a hand grenade during the Battle of the Bulge. He talks in terms of "imagery transfer" (which is simply radio cashing in on established TV advertising slogans, a method of attacking the public's ears while it rests...