Word: careful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unwilling to lend himself to propaganda circuses. De Gaulle had no enthusiasm for participating in a TV spectacular in Manhattan. He said that a summit meeting must be prepared with care, which would require time, and that since "the destiny of the Middle East affects in a direct manner that of all Europe," he proposed before any such meeting to "begin immediate consultations with other powers, notably European ones, which are interested." If Khrushchev wanted a special U.N. Security Council session, "considering, apparently, that the urgency of the questions relating to the Middle East has diminished," then such nations...
...Gaulle's message delighted the French, who noted that De Gaulle had dispatched Couve de Murville to Rome and Bonn to line up continental countries behind his plan to speak for Europe at the summit. There was even the suggestion that with his insistence on preparation "with care, reason and calm," and exclusion of public speechmaking, De Gaulle might lift the summit out of the U.N. morass in moiling Manhattan. He himself might, if he wished, wind up presiding over a Security Council meeting, since by rotation the chairmanship falls in August to France...
...Dame Katharine Elliot, 55, onetime delegate to the U.N., indefatigable Tory, and chairman of the Advisory Committee on Child Care for Scotland...
...rheumatic disease victims run as high as 30 million. About 4,000,000 of them need medical treatment every year, perhaps as many as 1,000,000 for severely crippling rheumatoid arthritis. In lost wages these diseases cost the nation $1.2 billion a year; in tax funds for patient care, $125 million; and in lost income taxes, $195 million...
...biggest bite, $316 million, has gone to finance the care of paralyzed polio victims (including supply of iron lungs...