Word: big
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Those who run big states will be the strong men at Los Angeles, and the better they run them the better they will look...
With New York in Republican hands, it is California's Brown, Pennsylvania's Lawrence, New Jersey's Meyner, Michigan's Williams and the other big-delegation state leaders who can do much to set the trend at the start of the Los Angeles convention. And in the floor fighting that follows, they and their favorite sons could become the most sought-after Democratic Governors in many a convention year...
...big four-engined plane, bearing the hammer and sickle on the fuselage, bore down through the haze toward a runway at New York International Airport, then pulled up again for a second approach and a safe, deft landing. Airport attendants and assembled dignitaries craned for a close look as it taxied up. The TU-114 turboprop was not only the first Russian jet to land in New York but had just made the 4,660 miles from Moscow in a nonstop...
Deputy Premier Frol Romanovich Kozlov, 50, in the U.S. to open up a Soviet science, technology and culture exhibition in Manhattan (see BUSINESS), accompanied by a group of aides that included the big plane's designer, Andrei Tupolev. After a greeting from Soviet Ambassador Mikhail ("Smiling Mike") Menshikov, Kozlov said in Russian: "I am proud of this opportunity to visit your city and your wonderful country...
...Geneva II (due to resume July 13), the headlines tended to stress the disarray in the Western camp: Britain's impatience for a summit on any terms, Adenauer's quibbles with Britain and quarrels with his own party, De Gaulle's insistent demand for big-power status. But serious headlines, based on the anxieties of the moment, are apt to obscure basic trends that move more slowly-slower trends that justified a more optimistic outlook in July...