Word: chris
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...talk with Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, Secretary of State Herter flew into Geneva at week's end to speak for the U.S. at the Big Four foreign ministers' meeting on Germany. Ahead of him, in the negotiations at Geneva's history-haunted Palais des Nations, Chris Herter faced the sternest test of skill and nerve of his career...
Before boarding his plane next day, Herter conferred with President Eisenhower, then paid a brief visit to ailing John Foster Dulles at Walter Reed Army Hospital. As Herter left the hospital suite, Dulles called out a farewell that voiced a general sentiment: "Good luck, Chris...
Harsen Smith had long thought in terms of family. The Chris-Craft business itself is a closely knit family enterprise. It was founded in 1894 by Harsen's grandfather, Christopher Columbus Smith, when he installed a naphtha-gas engine in a homemade rowboat and began selling rides. Today, 54 members of the Smith family still firmly control and share in the direction of the company he started...
...Chris's father James Smith ran a blacksmith shop but seldom worked in it (he always said it was too much trouble holding the horse up). He liked guns better, and he could also scratch out a middling tune on the fiddle. Young Chris's closest companion was his older brother Hank, who regularly got one haircut a year (from his mother), boasted that he never changed his winter underwear in summer. The brothers spent most of their time hunting and fishing on the flats and marshy lands that flank the river. Chris Smith never bothered with high...
Starting at midfield will be Dick Parks, Tadhg Sweeney, and Charlie Devens, while Lanny Keyes, Bron Thayer, and Mike Adair will probably open at defense. Chris Stone will tend his last game for the Crimson in the nets...