Word: spring
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...when the phone rang. It was the Soviet Foreign Ministry, asking the ambassador to drop by Andrei Gromyko's office. An hour later Ambassador Thompson received a letter from Premier Khrushchev, assuring President Eisenhower that Khrushchev would be glad to go to a summit meeting in Paris next spring, just so that he could get back to Moscow in time for May Day. The same message also went to the British and French...
Bicycle Tours for Two. Jauntily predicting that his new measures should clear up the worst of Britain's road jam by spring, Marples plans next to tackle the state-owned rail system and, by electrifying some routes and dieselizing the rest, show Socialists how Tories can make nationalized enterprise work efficiently. After that he wants to spruce up British shipping, perhaps replacing the 20-year-old Queens in the transatlantic service to restore Britain to its old pre-eminence in the shipping lanes. As for his own traveling plans, Marples is thinking of spending his next holiday...
Since many of the council members who will be elected during the two-week balloting will be both inexperienced and illiterate (in a country 82% illiterate), Ayub has ordered that council chairmen receive two months of training in financial and administrative affairs. This spring, Ayub will appoint a commission to draft a constitution to go into effect by 1961. It will feature a strong executive, an absence of political parties ("Otherwise, we will have no peace"), and the in direct election of a national legislature and President by the new councils, serving as electoral colleges. The idea resembles the democracy...
Only seven months after its creation, INRA has more power and money than any other institution in Cuba. It controls 10% of the country's economy and, with the expropriation of the big sugar estates, due next spring, it will soon control 50%. INRA owns Cuba's entire fishing fleet, runs the marketing of coffee, potatoes and tobacco, operates the $14 million Havana Riviera Hotel. Every egg in Cuba goes to market bearing INRA's purple stamp...
Well in advance of next spring's summit palaver, who should flit into Paris from Moscow but Izvestia's Editor in Chief Aleksei Adzhubei and his buxom wife Rada, daughter of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. If their general air of good will was any portent, the summit itself should be festooned with olive branches. To an Air France greeter, Newsman Adzhubei joked (in Russian): "You ought to have two classes on your planes - one for the thin ones, one for the fat." Then he grabbed a microphone, glowed: "I wish everyone a good year and, since...