Word: blancs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Identifying themselves only to the parish priest at Courmayeur, Italy, the four men in mountaineers' rigs hired a guide, conquered the Alps' highest peak, 15,781-ft. Mont Blanc. The explorers: four German priests, among them Julius Cardinal Döpfner, Bishop of Berlin, at 46 the youngest cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church. Meanwhile, in Chicago, another Catholic prelate stood at a peak: for his longstanding friendship with the city's Jewish community, Auxiliary Archbishop Bernard J. Shell was named Man of the Year by the Greater Chicago Committee for State of Israel Bonds. Said Committee...
...Blanc by Moonlight. Even to Gromyko it was clear that all this was not going to get the conference far. "When," he asked Selwyn Lloyd, "are we going to stop all this public talking?" The answer was whenever one side or the other asked for secret sessions-an implied indication that it was ready to make concessions. But France's incisive Maurice Couve de Murville, strongly seconded by Herter, argued that since it was Russia that had instigated the conference by fomenting the Berlin crisis, it was up to the Russians to make the first move...
...foreign ministers unencumbered by their German advisers. When Herter invited Couve, Lloyd and Gromyko to dinner (fish, chicken and strawberries), the rumor spread that serious bargaining was about to begin. But guests and host sat uncommunicatively on love seats and agreed on nothing beyond the superb view of Mt. Blanc by moonlight...
...villas scattered through the city's parklike suburbs, the foreign ministers of Britain, France, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. took one last look at their briefs. In the ornate League of Nations Council Chamber overlooking the turquoise waters of Lake of Geneva and facing snow-capped Mont Blanc, workmen shuffled the furniture about. The great East-West confrontation was about to begin...
LONGEST ROAD TUNNEL in world will be carved through Mont Blanc in the Alps, will run seven miles between Italy and France, cut road distance from Paris to Milan by 194 miles. Cost: $31.6 million...