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So long as it takes two to make a deal, and four to make a peace treaty, Russia's cynicism was justified. Khrushchev wanted only a summit: Eisenhower agreed that Khrushchev ''is the only man who has ... the authority to negotiate." The proxies, their homework done, gathered...
Soviet Earful. Beyond Gromyko's personal performance, the Russians showed they have finally mastered the main news-shaping device of mid-century diplomacy: the formal briefing. With the foreign ministers meeting behind closed doors, many correspondents found the post-session briefings their only source of solid news, other than...
Six-Sided Story. To the newsman attempting to follow the briefings over the earphone sets provided by the Swiss in the press building, the foreign ministers' conference often seemed bewilderingly contradictory. On a typical night, after the foreign ministers had agreed to seat the East and West German delegations...
Quarles's death shocked Washington. Day before, he had apparently been in the best of health. Like clockwork he had followed a normally busy schedule: a National Security Council meeting, lunch at his desk with Presidential Science Adviser James Killian, a conference with Defense Secretary Neil McElroy, a briefing...
Backgammon & Rye. Daily, Dulles got up at 6:30 a.m., bathed, shaved, read the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post (the New York Times and Herald Tribune were brought in later), began to maneuver through an Ellery Queen. Breakfast was at 8 o'clock on the patio, with Dulles...