Word: agreements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Herter took off for a new round of the Geneva conference on Berlin (see FOREIGN NEWS), a bipartisan delegation from Congress' Joint Committee on Atomic Energy marched into his office to voice some grave misgivings. The committee's worry: in spite of a technically interesting scientists' agreement last week (see SCIENCE), the U.S. seemed to be floundering around aimlessly at the other Geneva conference-the nuclear-test-ban negotiations that have dragged on since last...
...Iron Curtain had parted a bit. In fact, it parted back in early 1958, but it took a while for traffic through the slit to build up. In January 1958, after nearly three years of on-and-off negotiations, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. signed an elaborate cultural-exchange agreement. A few days later, to get the new era off to a brisk start, Moscow sent Mikhail ("Smiling Mike") Menshikov to Washington to replace dour Georgy Zarubin as ambassador. During 1958 the U.S. sent to the U.S.S.R. 82 separate exchange projects with 953 members-scientists, engineers, artists, entertainers, businessmen, farmers...
...campaign for competitive coexistence with Iraq, Nasser was able to take advantage of another set of coexisting competitors. Already accepting Soviet aid to build his Aswan Dam, Nasser last week signed an $8,000,000 agreement with the U.S. to resume the technical-aid program broken off in the Suez crisis...
Recently, President Eisenhower announced that he would "walk an extra mile" to reach an agreement at the "summit." While the President (vide his recent remarks about the Moscow Art Exhibit) is about the least likely authority to be quoted in an art review, I'll draw a somewhat shaky parallel from his political mots justes and urge all 3850 of my potential readers to walk the "extra mile" across the Yard to the Fogg Museum for a truly rewarding meeting at the summit of this past century...
...Where indifference to doctrine prevails," Dr. Behnken warned the delegates, "and where men insist on compromises rather than sound agreement in doctrine, termites have been doing their destructive work . . . What Lutheranism needs is not greater and greater numbers at any cost, but a. positive and unflinching loyalty to God's word and the Lutheran confessions...