Word: rifted
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Such last week was the setting for Communism's most serious public rift since Tito's defection from Moscow. Instead of turgid rhetoric, there were revelations about Communism's recent past that rivaled the purge trials of the 1930's. Instead of parrotlike unity, there was the thrust of conflict between Red China and the Soviet Union. With typical Communist indirection, Moscow and Peking used tiny, insignificant Albania as the symbol of the quarrel and as their ideological whipping...
Here then is an example of the ideological rift in the School Committee campaign: on the one hand entrenched progress, on the other a frantic search for minor issues...
Louis Lefkowitz, Republican, who doggedly fought his way up from an East Side Manhattan slum to Fordham Law School, a city judgeship under Fiorello La Guardia, and a successful private practice, has served 4½ years as a hard-working state attorney general. Elated by the rift in Democratic ranks, New York City's feeble G.O.P. tried first to get either liberal Senator Jacob Javits or personable young Representative John Lindsay to run for mayor. Both refused; the party finally settled on Lawyer Lefkowitz, and picked running mates to produce a ticket that sounds like three parts...
Last week a white farmer in Kenya's great Rift Valley found the body of a lost calf he had been searching for. Its front legs had been cut off and placed in its mouth; its belly had been ripped and its entrails festooned about its neck and head...
...Meany must not have looked very far, for throughout the four-day conference - held at Unity House, the 1,000-acre Pennsylvania resort owned by the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union -signs of rift were all over the premises. On the excuse that he had to fire the opening salvos of the United Auto Workers' contract battle in Detroit (see BUSINESS), A.F.L.-C.I.O. Vice President Walter Reuther, who has long been at odds with Meany, snubbed the entire meeting; labor experts were quick to note that Reuther had set the timetable for his contract negotiations long after...