Word: bermudas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...order for factory strikes went out only a few hours before Prime Minister Harold Macmillan took off for talks with President Eisenhower in Bermuda on vital international questions...
...schooled Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah, told Nkrumah that the U.S. is prepared to offer help in the new country's development. He chatted with one of Britain's top emissaries, Lord Privy Seal Richard A. ("Rab") Butler, talked about the forthcoming Ike-Macmillan conference in Bermuda, complimented Britain on her long, mutually profitable role in Ghana. Next day he held an impromptu talk with an American he never had met, Montgomery, Ala.'s bus-boycott leader, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King (TIME, Feb. 18), invited King to confer with him in Washington...
...made the statement in a news conference, where he also disclosd he is departing for the Bermuda conference by slow boat tomorrow, leaving it to Congress to "go ahead and cut" the budget...
...collectors. (His prize painting is El Greco's Pietà, for which he paid $400,000.) With town houses in Paris and Athens, a penthouse duplex in Manhattan, a mansion on Long Island, a London penthouse at Claridge's, a chateau on the French Riviera, a lush Bermuda beach residence and a 190-ft. yacht, the Creole, biggest privately owned sailing vessel in the world, Niarchos has acres of wall space, always a challenge to the ardent collector. He plans to hang some of the newly acquired paintings in the Manhattan penthouse, others in the Paris house...
...Agreed on a meeting between President Eisenhower and France's Premier Guy Mollet, in Washington, Feb. 26 and 27, and a meeting between Ike and Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, in Bermuda (at Ike's suggestion), March 21 through 24. One point up for discussion in Bermuda: a proposal by the financially pressed Macmillan government that 1) the British cut the strength of their four NATO divisions by up to 30,000 men, and 2) the U.S. make up the difference in firepower by supplying guided missiles to the remaining British forces...