Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Five years ago, Norway's Trygve Lie was the Soviet Union's candidate for first president of the U.N. Assembly. He was beaten, 28 to 23, by Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak. Then Lie, with the warm approval of the U.S.S.R., was elected U.N.'s secretary general. Lie continued to enjoy Soviet favor until he reacted with indignation to Communist aggression in Korea...
...Germans were tense with the knowledge that thousands of Red troops, at the peak of fitness after summer maneuvers, stood menacingly along the zonal borders. There was talk of "the October 1 danger point." The point passed, the troops withdrew. Last week Free Germany stopped holding its breath: the Soviet soldiers had moved back into winter quarters...
Associate Professor Gerschenkron, Harvard's top authority on the Russian economy, estimates "very roughly" that Soviet national income today is about 90 billion dollars a year; this is only slightly more than a third of the corresponding American figure. Consequently, this strength, plus enormous comparative flexibility, should give the U. S. economy "a great edge," Gerschrenkron believes...
...only a small relative percentage of our national income, we should be able to outbuild and outlast the Soviet Union," Dean Mason remarked, "even though the Russians have the head start...
Students for Democratic Action, Radcliffe's only extant political group, begins a new "educational program" tonight with a discussion by Merle Fainsed, professor of Government. He will speak at 8:30 p.m. in Cabot basement on "Conflicts and Tensions in the Soviet Union...