Word: underground
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...central district is left as a ruined no man's land, Beirut may de facto become partitioned permanently." One proposal: to bulldoze the entire 30-block area into the Mediterranean as landfill for a new skyscraper commercial district, leaving the old city center as a vast park with underground space for 6,000 cars...
...seems anachronistic. But the jabs are rapid and effective. Krasnoye is a model of petty bureaucracy populated by the pompous, the incompetent and the foolish. A self-proclaimed scientific genius and follower of Lysenko, named Gladishev, for example, devotes himself to creating a hybrid plant that will grow potatoes underground and tomatoes above. He also believes in excrement as a wonder vitamin that could benefit mankind if only people would overcome their squeamishness. There are send-ups of education, collective farms, newspapers, law enforcement and party organizations. Voinovich's definition of an official meeting: "An arrangement whereby a large...
Such poverty provided a fertile ground for Communism as far back as the 1930s. Party Leader Alvaro Cunhal, 62, spent many years in the Communist underground there organizing farm workers. Through the clandestinely published party newspaper Avante, which was surreptitiously dropped on doorsteps at night, the party organized a series of strikes in the 1950s−then a daring affront to the Salazar regime...
...Alger Hiss, New Deal whiz kid, Harvard Law graduate, head of the Carnegie Endowment for World Peace, was accused by an ex-Communist named Whittaker Chambers first of being a Communist, then later of passing State Department documents during the 1930s to the Communist underground. Chambers, a senior editor at Time, made his initial accusations in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), where Hiss vigorously denied the charges. Despite Chambers' somewhat sordid past, the weight of evidence seemed on his side in the two perjury trials that followed; Chambers produced State Department documents allegedly typed...
...have talked to him on several occasions--who's suspicious of the whole outside world including the FBI, Nixon, all these other people. Someone should talk to Maxim Lieber, this literary agent forced to flee the country. (Lieber was accused by Chambers of involvement in the Communist underground...