Word: china
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...current objective of Soviet foreign policy, if performance is a guide, is to achieve a division of the world that is variously called "coexistence," "disengagement," or just "facing the facts." Likely reason: by gaining world sanction for its past conquests (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Hungary, China, Czechoslovakia, etc.), Communism robs the free world of any forceful reason for the counterchallenge that ranges from forward military bases to nonrecognition...
...China. The U.S. has successfully fended off the coexistence gambit in many a deceptive form-including siren calls to one more summit conference. But last week it hardly knew what to do when the spirit of coexistence sneaked in via the back door in the person of Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, 63, top Kremlin agent in Budapest during the rape of Hungary, who has a normal smile and what one newsman called "blunt words, crackling wit and unfailing good humor...
Anastas Mikoyan radiated respectability. He glowed good will to all men (see below). He probed his duly relaxed U.S. audiences to determine resistance to precise elements of Communist foreign policy-"Ban on nuclear tests," "China does exist," "If Soviet-American businessmen trade, the politicians will have to follow." On a commercial DC-4 tourist flight over the Great Lakes, a TIME correspondent noted that he sat back while the Kremlin's Ambassador to Washington Menshikov (TIME. Feb. 24) translated a New York Times report on how he was wowing the Americans-"A positive impact...
Finletter also discussed Communist China, disarmament, and the reorganization of the Defense Department. He concluded by citing the difficulties of getting a foreign policy which keeps up to date with the times...
Fancy Meeting You Here (Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney; RCA Victor LP; Stereo). An infectious musical dialogue between two of the sassiest fancy talkers in the business. C. & C. give slick and witty readings to a selection of retreads -On a Slow Boat to China, You Came a Long Way from St. Louis-and introduce a punchy, potential hit named Calcutta. One of the most intriguing vocal entertainments since Noel Coward had his famous chat with Mary Martin...