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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congress may relax some restrictions against U.S. trade with Russia, said Under Secretary of State C. Douglas Dillon, if Khrushchev follows through on his promise to reopen negotiations on the unpaid lend-lease debt, shows good faith by some reasonable payment on an obligation that the U.S. has already written down from $2.6 billion to $800 million. Moscow also published a fact that U.S. sources politely kept off the record for a week: Khrushchev asked industriailsts and financiers at a Washington dinner for loans to finance Soviet purchases...
...entertainment with no pretensions beyond a fresh idea presented by people with a decent respect for the medium and the audience. Playwright Rod (Patterns) Serling's stories of the "fifth dimension, between science and superstition," are plotted as carefully as his more ambitious 90-minute specials and are written, acted, directed with consistent competence. Whether the hero is an Air Force officer suffering hallucinations after more than 400 hours of isolation, or a tired old pitchman bargaining with "Mr. Death," tales from the Twilight Zone are proof that a little talent and imagination can atone...
Hardly had Nikita Khrushchev's bluster about Russia's strength died in Washington than a sobersided report showed that the Soviet economy lags much farther behind the U.S.'s than any Russian politico cares to admit. The report, written by top British Economist Alec Nove, 42, and published this week by the nongovernmental National Planning Association, puts forth new evidence that the U.S.S.R. has no chance to match the economic level of the U.S. in the foreseeable future. Economist Nove flatly rejects Khrushchev's boast that the Soviets have boosted their industrial output to more than...
Aside from well-written and amusing scenes. The Baron in the Trees stops short of real worth. Its satire on life-on-the-ground is too tentative to slice deep, and only once does Author Calvino suggest a theme. That is when Voltaire asks Cosimo's brother: "But is it to be nearer the sky that your brother stays up there?" The answer: "My brother considers that anyone who wants to see the earth properly must keep himself at a necessary distance from...
Intentionally or not, Biographer Big-land has written an expose of advanced thought in Shelley's England. In the Movement, her record shows more finance than romance and proves again that those who set out to rid society of hypocrisy usually have plenty of their own in case they succeed...