Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rewarded with a treaty giving them the right to know how many Soviet divisions were stationed on their soil. The lesser fry-Bulgaria's Zhivkov, Rumania's Gheorghiu-Dej, Czechoslovakia's Novotny and even little Kadar from Hungary-got encouraging pats on the back. There were vast banquets at the Kremlin, a huge amount of congratulatory speechmaking and communiques galore...
...Calgary bureau will give TIME, which has three bureaus in eastern Canada, better balanced staff coverage of Canadian news in general. Reporting the west's vast growth of population and industry and the development of its natural resources, Bureau Chief Ogle will work with the 16 of our 35 part-time Canadian correspondents who are scattered through Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, the Yukon and Northwest Territories...
...great gathering of the Supreme Soviet is soon to take place. In the Communist equivalent of a "State of the Union" message to it, Khrushchev & Co. have much to explain, if only for the comfort of their own vast bureaucracy. To counter rumors that deep splits were threatening in parts of the old Stalinist empire, friendly delegations from China, East Germany and other Communist countries were already gathering in Moscow. In the praises of Stalin being sung by these delegations, however, there was a dichotomy that would not have been present in Stalin...
...scored well below their white counterparts. In 22 elementary schools that are 99% white, for instance, the average IQ was 105, while the average in predominantly Negro schools was only 87. Though the committee jumped to the false conclusion that these scores "verify the fact that there is a vast difference in the academic ability of the races," school officials have still had to divide their pupils into four groups, according to ability, and to give each group a different curriculum. "The result," said the committee, "is a new form of segregation: instead of having a segregated school system, they...
Died. Robert Sterling Clark, 79, publicity-shy Singer Sewing Machine heir, sportsman (his horse Never Say Die won Britain's Epsom Derby in 1954), scholar and art collector; after a stroke; in Williamstown, Mass. Collector Clark quietly salted away a vast store of art treasures for most of his life, in 1955 began to display his collections publicly at the air-conditioned, superbly lighted Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, a $3,000,000 free public museum in Williamstown (TIME...