Word: unionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Born in 1905 in Kishinev in the Balkans, the son of Isaac and Zelta Haia, who were killed later that year in a pogrom. Aliases: Juanesky, Jouanneau, Joinov, Innovici, Joinou, Joseph Levy. Employment: ragpicker, scrap metal dealer, entrepreneur, double agent. Has been a citizen of Rumania and the Soviet Union, but now claims to be a stateless person. Wanted for swindling, nonpayment of taxes, contempt of court, illegal exit. Physical description: short, pudgy, grey-haired, looks vaguely like Alfred Hitchcock...
...Berlin note. With tongue in cheek, the British wondered why, among other historical documents, the Russians did not mention the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop pact which "made the outbreak of war inevitable," called Munich a lesson in appeasement to heed in Berlin now, and cuttingly recalled that because the Soviet Union had failed to honor the freedom of religion, press, speech and voting promised in the 1945 Potsdam agreement, "some 2,000,000 Germans have left East Germany rather than endure any longer the social system which exists there...
...Marlene Dietrich, Bob Hope, George Gobel. Analysis Stardust is a projected series that will put top newsmen among the other stars. The Image series (audio documentaries) will be an ambitious collection of documentaries starting with Image: Russia, a 1½-hour-a-night, month-long study of the Soviet Union, "authenticated" by Hearst Columnist Bob Considine...
...planet was tiny, as planets go, but it was the first ever put into the solar system by man. The Soviet Union's moon-probe missile-promptly dubbed "Lunik" by the Russians-was a giant achievement in the young history of space exploration, the first time man had ever broken anything free from the tight gravitational hold of earth...
Lunik's great, multistage launching rocket, which probably weighed 250 tons or more, roared up from some part of the Soviet Union on Friday. When the Russians made their first announcement, they could already say with confidence that the final stage had attained escape velocity. On Saturday they could announce that at 9:59 p.m. E.S.T. Lunik had passed the moon and plunged on into outer space on an orbit around the sun. At week's end it was 318,000 miles from the earth and still going strong...