Word: berlin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...print the results of a recent Gallup poll on whether Dulles is right to keep U.S. troops in Kremlin-menaced Berlin [Dec. 29]. The most interesting result is not that 60% of those polled agree with Mr. Dulles but that almost one-fourth are not familiar with the problem that might bring on World War III. What we probably need is fewer public polls and more public education...
Such was the suavity of the Soviet sucker play that it was only the crowds of Hungarians, impolitely waving placards at Mikoyan-MURDERER! MURDERER!, who seemed to appreciate the cold-war subtlety that defending specific places like Berlin can sometimes depend upon branding what or who is unacceptable as precisely that...
...Older on the Inside." With imperturbable informality, Mikoyan tried out his pitch first on Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in a go-minute, off-cuff State Department session, during which he once again, in reasonable tones, laid out Russia's unreasonable stand on a "free" Berlin, left behind a fresh memorandum carrying a near imperceptible sign of a willingness to negotiate...
Europe itself is the subject most painstakingly studied. Field trips-to Rome for art and architecture, to Berlin for political science-fill in the outlines of classroom lectures. Three-day weekends during the summer and fall allow long freelance forays. "There was." according to one report, "a definite trend to Lederhosen" Wrote Friedrich W. Strothmann, head of Stanford's modern languages department and, with General Studies Chairman Robert A. Walker, originator of the Landgut Burg school: the students typically "hop on a motorcycle Thursday afternoon and come back Sunday from Venice and Salzburg after having seen a Mozart opera...
...entries ranged from Irving Berlin's "best wishes" and signature on an other wise white page (price: $500) to a fifth-of-a-page, rear-end view of Actress Shirley MacLaine...