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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ready for Failure. Between the visible shows of geniality, the two were joined in the toughest debate between Chiefs of State since the summits of World War II. Eisenhower, who did almost all the talking on the U.S. side, made it clear that the U.S. would negotiate on 1) reducing the size of Western garrisons in Berlin, 2.) cutting down propaganda and espionage activities, 3) setting up an all-German commission to work on long-range plans for German reunification. Khrushchev, who did all the talking on the U.S.S.R. side, said only that he would consider some form...
...were plentifully supplied with needled beer and hijacked hooch). But there were nasty rumors that Augie was a finger man. In 1957, he and Frank Costello had a couple of friendly drinks together at the Waldorf just eleven hours before a bullet parted Costello's thinning hair and almost put him permanently out of circulation. Five months later, Albert Anastasia was shot down in a barber's chair-just a few days after dining with Pisano...
Whenever one of his subordinates suggested that an extra bodyguard might be a good thing to have around, wiry, fragile-looking Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike, 60, would only laugh. Proud of being known as "the people's Premier" of Ceylon, "Banda" refused to worry about personal safety, almost every morning would throw open his rambling bungalow on Colombo's shady Rosemead Place to all who wanted...
...mimeographing press association called Women's News Service polled a covey of newspaper women's-page editors (mostly females) across the U.S., learned that almost a quarter of the distaffers were dead set against the idea of any woman's election as U.S. Vice President. The rest named some favorites. Top choices: Maine's Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith, ex-Ambassador to Italy (1953-57) Clare Boothe Luce, Eleanor Roosevelt...
...almost handsome, beaming, digging Khrushchev, tossing a friendly grin at a speculative Eisenhower and other unidentified observers, says: "Gentlemen, we have some public works to get done. Let's bury the hatchet together." The art was not homegrown, but imported from a satellite, where it first appeared in the Hungarian newspaper Népszabadsdg (People's Freedom). Taken with the massive, almost Western-style, gaudy coverage of the Khrushchev tour, the cartoon was enough to set observers wondering. After such unexpected treats, would the Russian reader want to go back to the oldtime, unadorned propaganda diet...