Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...statistical wizards even "prove" that between 1952 and 1958 (a U.S. recession year), Russia registered steady increases in production of pig iron, steel, coal and cotton textiles, while the U.S. lost ground; absolute production figures, which show the U.S. far ahead in every important industrial and mining product except coal and iron ore, are discreetly left in the background or totally ignored.* But in the last fortnight, as he meandered through Siberia on his way home to Moscow from Peking, Khrushchev could not avoid seeing for himself that his country was still far from the wonderland of the yearbooks...
...seats, might cut the reliable majority to 6-5.) ¶Latin America has never been a monolithic bloc, even if the Russians do call it the U.S.'s "mechanical majority." As Mexican Delegate Luis Padilla Nervo puts it, "the Latin Americans do not follow instructions from anybody except their own governments." Compared to the Soviet bloc, which votes solid on every question, Latin America is ruggedly independent. In 1957, for example, Mexico, Guatemala, Haiti and Bolivia disagreed with the U.S. more than half the time...
...Except for physical sciences, headed by Nuclear Physicist Gustav Hertz, almost every Leipzig department has been destroyed academically. Compulsory courses (Marxism, Russian) help to keep a student in school as long as 13 hours a day. Homework is often an evening spent proselytizing citizens about Marxism. "Vacation" is an assignment in the coal mines or harvesting crops. While prune-faced female lecturers drone on about the miracles of collectivization, the student "sport" society dutifully digs foxholes and practices with carbines. As paid employees of the state, students have little trouble passing as long as they remain politically reliable. The school...
...carry-over of corn would be a whole lot bigger except for subsidized exports of corn...
...suggestion had a middle-of-the-cocktail-party logic: Why not have a quadripartite whiskey festival, featuring Canada, Scotland, the U.S. and Ireland? "There are international conferences, congresses, and conclaves for most of man's endeavors, enjoyments, and art forms; except whiskey. And we (The Whiskey Distillers of Ireland) have often wondered...