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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Waterfall from the East. Nasser himself is again playing both sides, as the game of "positive neutralism" requires. Last week no fewer than four Premiers called on him. Italy's Premier Amintore Fanfani, the first top Western statesman to visit Cairo in two years, was there to argue a special Italian affinity for Arabs. Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah passed through; Lebanon's new Premier Rashid Karami dropped in to mend fences; and East Germany's Otto Grotewohl made a formal call on Nasser. Afterwards Grotewohl announced that the two countries, while not generally recognizing one another...
Stop the Movie. Sailing away on New Year's morning, after ten days of such treatment in Indonesia, Tito might have been looking ahead to more of the same at the next port of call. But Burma unexpectedly asked him to delay his arrival two days, until its national independence celebration was over. On his last visit to Burma in 1955, when his neutralist friend U Nu was Premier, crowds thronged the streets of Rangoon beneath banners that proclaimed "Long Life to Great Tito!" When he arrived in Rangoon last week, after seven days at sea, the atmosphere...
WHILE junketing around the U.S. last week, Rus sia's Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) put one courtesy call at the top of his list-a special visit to Cyrus Stephen Eaton, 75, Cleveland multi millionaire and Red Boss Khrushchev's favorite capitalist...
...business so fast that he was able to build a power plant in Canada a few years later. By mergers and purchases, he shortly controlled a utilities complex in which $2 billion was invested. By 1925 he was so rich that when he decided to refinance a small steelmaker called Trumbull Steel Co., he could say: "Gentlemen, if you have any doubt about my ability to underwrite the financing, just call the Cleveland Trust Co. and ask whether my check for $20 million will be honored." Five years later, with Trumbull and other small companies as a base, he founded...
...today he writes of the New Deal with the nostalgia usually found in men who have narrowly missed a famous war. Schlesinger. now 41. sentimentally evokes memories that could not possibly be his own: "The interminable meetings, the litter of cigarette stubs, the hasty sandwich at the desk . . . the call from the White House, the postponed dinner, the neglected wife, the office lights burning late into the night, the lilacs hanging in fragrance above Georgetown gardens while men rebuilt the nation over long drinks...