Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Midway in the second day of their man-to-man talks at Camp David on Maryland's Catoctin Mountain, President Eisenhower turned to Nikita Khrushchev with a personal appeal. Said he: "You have the opportunity to make a great contribution to history by making it possible to ease tensions. It is within your hands." Nikita Khrushchev, unchallenged ruler of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and its satellites, was in an unusual position. His was the line that the U.S. was blocking world peace. Yet, in the strangely relaxed and friendly atmosphere of the guarded mountain retreat, Dwight Eisenhower...
...thousands of students and workers trooped behind a symbolic coffin mourning "the martyrs of Arabism who fell dead from bullets of treacherous, criminal Kassem." In Jordan, where young King Hussein has been half-reconciled to Nasser by Kassem's involvement with the Communists, the state radio broadcast an appeal to all Arabs to "protect Iraq from Communist gangs." Even some erstwhile Kassem defenders turned hostile: in Lebanon a crowd of 3,000 battled police in a drive to overrun the Iraqi embassy, and Beirut's Le Soir, long friendly to the Baghdad regime, fulminated, "Dipped in blood...
...which prides itself on having market surveys to answer almost any sales question, this time is stumped. Buyers have been unpredictable and have shown a notable disregard of polls telling them what they should like, especially that they liked bigger, chrome-decorated cars. Detroit guesses that the compacts will appeal particularly to people on tight budgets. But it is not certain, since consumers no longer buy cars to match their pocketbooks. Most buyers of the low-cost foreign cars and of the Rambler and Lark come from higher-income brackets...
...their own fashion (The NAACP is currently trying to force a North Carolina town into producing an overall desegregation plan), or allowing a skillful legal device to sabotage the spirit of its 1954 ruling. The question of whether assignment by race is justified when accompanied by the right to appeal for transfer is central in the case. If it is justified, Southern schools will have their "pioneers," Jackie Robinsons of education, indefinitely and the Federal Courts will be faced with dozens of "transfer" cases for years to come...
Shirley Temple's Storybook (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The child star has grown into a storyteller with a special appeal for children. She starts her new series with All Baba and the 40 Thieves. Nehemiah Persoff plays...