Word: began
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eiffel Tower does in Paris. A relic of Stalin's appetite for Victorian skyscrapers, it comes off as just what he intended: the biggest wedding cake in the store window of Soviet education. Next year five U.S. professors will discover what such education means. Last week Columbia University began looking for volunteers to teach at Moscow University in the first formal professorial exchange between the two countries. What are they...
...press has long held the distinction of being the world's dullest-a distinction in which Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, one Communist who believes that party pills go down best with a little sugar, takes scant pleasure. No sooner had he taken over in the Kremlin than Khrushchev began trying to brighten up Soviet journalism: dull writing, he warned a conference of editors six years ago, "must be driven from the newspaper page." To do the driving, Khrushchev employed an able newsman: apple-cheeked Aleksei I. Adzhubei, now 35, who also happens...
...Komsomolskaya Pravda, watched approvingly while Adzhubei, rising with predictable swiftness from cub reporter to editor, turned the doctrinaire voice of Communist youth into a reasonably lively paper. In reward, Adzhubei last May was named editor of Izvestia (circ. 1.800,000), official organ of the Soviet government-and it, too, began taking on a new look...
With the boss's boy leading the way, others among Russia's leading journalists got the idea, began breaking old molds. In an unprecedented gesture, Moscow's Literaturnaya Gazeta last week agreed to run a 1,100-word letter from U.S. Author Charles Neider, defending The Autobiography of Mark Twain, which he edited, against a hostile review in the Russian literary journal...
First to be warmed was the railroad industry. Freight-car loadings jumped 14% for the week to 638,408 cars, the largest traffic since the 697,633 cars loaded in the last week of June. Even the steel industry's biggest and hardest-hit customer, the auto industry, began to thaw. General Motors, which had shut down its plants, began to call workers back to resume making parts. Ford put its operation on five days, and scheduled overtime on the Falcon, Thunderbird and Lincoln. (But Chrysler laid off more workers, stopped production of its Valiant.) With American Motors...