Word: agenda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Government, as governments should, expressed the society. In the Administration, there is hardly a man with a political position independent of Eisenhower's. Yet neither the fact of his illness nor the prospect of his retirement jolted the Administration. The web of committees and the pressure of agenda hold it tight. Richard Nixon, who is no second Eisenhower, quite adequately performs the coordinating functions...
...Jose Maza, 66, a U.N. parliamentarian of ten years' standing. With Molotov protesting only mildly for the record, the Assembly voted for the sixth year (42-to-12) against considering Red China for membership. But after Molotov's standpat opening speech, only one of the three major agenda items (disarmament, atoms-for-peace, charter revision) seemed destined to benefit in a practical way from "the Geneva spirit." That was President Eisenhower's proposal, endorsed by the Russians at the summit meeting, for a U.N. center for joint development of the peaceful uses of atomic energy...
...Baptist missionaries in western China, imprisoned since January 1951 for "espionage": Sarah Perkins and Dorothy Middleton Presbyterian missionaries to a colony of lepers at Lienhsien, imprisoned since February 1951 for "sabotage." Points of Divergence. U.S. Ambassador Johnson is now committed to move on to Point Two of the agenda for Geneva, namely: "settlement of certain other practical matters." He will canvass the possibility of Red China's agreement to U.S. principle of "no recourse to force." The U.S. also wants to explore the chances for a cease-fire in the Formosa Strait. But Ambassador Wang's Red China...
When it was all over, Tom Shand's picnic guests were herded into a meeting. Its agenda: possible ways of making things easier for visitors arriving in New Zealand...
...reactions, the Chinese Communists released the eleven captured U.S. airmen on the eve of the Geneva talks, as if to get the talks off to a good start. It was a clever trick, for the meeting in Geneva's Palais des Nations had only two points on the agenda: 1) the release of Americans held captive by the Red Chinese, and 2) "other practical matters at issue between the two sides." The Reds seemed not to realize, or to care, what effect Colonel Arnold's story of torture (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) might have on U.S. public opinion...