Word: camped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Camp David the heavyweights of the U.S. and Britain were committed, and in the months to come their energies would be turned to working out the mechanics of the summit conference, and, far more important, their differences over such basic free-world policies as Berlin and the unification of Germany. The leaders of East and West had last met at the summit at Geneva in 1955. Hopes were high then for an end to the cold war-and because those hopes were shattered by Soviet obduracy and Khrushchev's hippodroming, the phony spirit of Geneva may have done more...
Behind Barbed Wire. An Army helicopter stood ready on the grounds of the nearby Bethesda Naval Hospital to take the President, Prime Minister and British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd (who dislikes air travel in general and, from his appearance, helicopter travel in particular) to Camp David, the Maryland retreat of Presidents, where Franklin Roosevelt (who called it Shangri-La) met in secrecy with Winston Churchill during World War II. (Harry Truman had no use for the place.) Some lesser lights of the British party, who followed by helicopter and car, grumbled about being tucked away in such sylvan solitude...
Long a close-kept secret both as to precise location and physical description, Camp David last week was briefly opened to newsmen for a rare look. Its 184 acres on the east slope of Catoctin Mountain are surrounded by a 12-ft. barbed-wire fence, with Marine sentries endlessly pacing the perimeter-at night just inside a ring of blazing spotlights. Gravel walks wind amid wild cherry and red oak trees to converge on the President's rustic-timber one-story cottage, named "Aspen" by Mamie Eisenhower. Leaning against one wall stood Dwight Eisenhower's red and blue...
...calculated to give the participants a chance to thresh out their problems without distractions. At least once a day, Ike's deadpanned Press Secretary Jim Hagerty and Macmillan's ebullient Pressman Peter Hope briefed newsmen at hectic conferences held in a Gettysburg gymnasium 25 miles away from Camp David. Reporters generally had to follow Hagerty and Hope to their hotel rooms for private briefings on what the other briefings had actually been about. Then they returned to the gymnasium for still more clarifying explanations-from each other. But gradually, despite the privacy at Camp David and the confusion...
While Western leaders from Camp David to Bad Godesberg sought ways to cope with his threats to Berlin, Khrushchev called a press conference in the Sverdlov Hall of the Great Kremlin Palace to explain that he had been grievously misunderstood. Nattily turned out in a dark business suit enlivened by two gold "Hero of the Soviet Union" medals, Nikita spent two hours adroitly fielding questions from 300 Russian and a handful of Western newsmen. The notion that he had given the West an ultimatum to get out of Berlin by May 27, he said, was "an unscrupulous interpretation...