Word: cold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hard Road. For all the public smiles and warm words, the road to Glassboro had been arduous, and at times ridiculous. From Washington's viewpoint, there were at least four powerful arguments against the meeting?the four sterile cold-war Summits during the Eisenhower and Kennedy Administrations, most notably the 1960 Paris meeting that broke up over the U-2 incident as soon as it began, and John Kennedy's unhappy Viennese deadlock with Nikita Khrushchev in 1961. Also, Washington officialdom has a built-in predisposition against high-level meetings without detailed preparation and a concrete agenda. Finally, the Administration...
...conferees emerged from the first day's meeting beaming at each other and the world. If looks could melt the cold war ice, Gloucester County would have been flooded. Johnson, towering over his stocky, grizzled guest, wore his most affable smile; Kosygin, normally grim in public, grinned shyly. "We have exchanged views on a number of international questions," Johnson said. "We also exchanged views on the questions of direct bilateral relations between the Soviet Union and the United States of America." It was, in the words of countless diplomatic bulletins, "a very good and very useful meeting...
...CUBA. In the cold war's tautest showdown, John F. Kennedy forced Khrushchev's hand by demanding the removal of Soviet missiles from the Caribbean. Faced with the alternative of nuclear war, Khrushchev caved...
...Long Cold Winter. However successful the youth patrols may be in extinguishing ghetto explosions, they represent at best an expedient. "Everyone is worrying about the long hot summer," Martin Luther King Jr. observed last week. "We had a long cold winter when little was done about the conditions that create riots." Some cities are making a start. In Chicago, the Negro newspaper, Daily Defender, has launched an extensive "Keep a Cool Summer" campaign, prodding the city to extend evening playground hours and build public swimming pools, sponsoring a contest offering $1,000 for the best plan for peace...
...hate this age," says Sculptor Reuben Nakian. "It's very cold here. So you have to train yourself to ignore it." For years, Nakian has been training exuberantly at his Stamford, Conn., studio by designing huge, flagrant evocations of Greek nymphs and goddesses (see color opposite). Modern U.S. sculpture in classical themes seems a bit like vodka martinis in Grecian urns. Yet Nakian's polylithic Ledas, Hecubas and Olympias are lusted after by some of the most adventurous contemporary curators and collectors in the country...