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Short of execution, expulsion from the party used to be the deepest form of disgrace for a Communist. Now, the saying goes in the satellites, it is expulsion from the grave.
The instruments of the orchestra were not the same 400 years ago, and this fact was responsible for one of the concert's most definite successes--an interesting novelty in sound and tone--but also for its only trace of weakness. Proficiency on such instruments as the cromorne (a woodwind...
Balley's answer to the problem (and the answer of the many House Committee leaders who joined him) was to effectively do away with Student Council at Harvard. The Council, unwilling to accept Bailey's censure, asked for and got a stay of execution.
Satanic Gossips. Some delegates sounded like gossip columnists on a satanic news sheet. Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan claimed that Albania's Premier Mehmet Shehu said Stalin made two mistakes: he died too soon and he did not destroy the "present leadership of the Soviet Communist Party." Culture Minister Ekaterina...
The Turkish election campaign was conducted in the shadow of the gallows. Hardly any of the candidates mentioned it, but everyone recalled the execution of ex-Premier Adnan Menderes and two members of his government by General Gursel's military junta. Despite occasional arrests in the campaign weeks, the...