Word: agenda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Second Day. Next morning the West felt a stir of fresh hope when the Big Four's second team-the foreign ministers -quickly worked out an agenda with very little argument from Molotov. But at that afternoon's big session, Bulganin buried the last hope of achieving anything at all on Germany. A free Germany must be a Germany free of any military obligations to the West, he said flatly. He rejected Eden's proffered reassurance of a five-power security guarantee against a united Germany; such guarantees might be all very well for small, weak powers...
...Harold W. Rigney, 54, onetime U.S. Air Force chaplain, postwar rector of Fu Jen University in Peking and a prisoner of the Chinese Reds since 1951. But Mrs. Rigney was refused a passport by the State Department, was told that the priest's problem was on the agenda of the Geneva Conference...
...Parley at the Summit will have no fixed agenda, but both sides will arrive in Geneva with a well-defined set of objectives. On the eve of the conference the basic outline of these objectives is clear...
WASHINGTON'S National Gallery, which will be 15 years old next March, is already deep in plans for its birthday celebration. Main item on the agenda: unveiling 150 masterpieces from the Samuel H. Kress collection. As an indication of the superb quality of the new Kress donations, the gallery this week made public the names of six (see color pages). Each was a masterpiece in the proper sense of the word: clear and present evidence of the artist's genius crossed with the spirit...
...McCarthy rose in the Senate one afternoon last week with a resolution directing the Secretary of State to insist that the Big Four conference have an agenda item on the status of satellite nations. Since the U.S., Britain and France want no set agenda in meeting with the Russians, the resolution, if passed, would have hamstrung the anti-Communist leaders...