Word: czechoslovakian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eisenhower-Macmillan agreement to accept Polish and Czechoslovakian observers at the May foreign ministers' conference should indeed "look fine" to Nikita Khrushchev. Every additional conference at which the dummy governments of Russia's colonies are given recognition adds to their populations' resignation of mind, and makes it possible for Russia to keep fewer troops and tanks in such imprisoned countries to control the people. The Russian hoods are hoodwinking us again...
...prove to be its most dangerous challenge, NATO marked its tenth anniversary Saturday. Although the Alliance has yet to realize the specific goals of military strength it set for itself, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization has proved a valuable mechanism for collective defense. Created in the aftermath of the Czechoslovakian coup of 1948 and the Berlin Blockade, the Treaty signalled Western determination to resist further Soviet expansion in Europe. It also marked the first peace-time alliance to which the United States had ever committed itself; the collapse of Europe brought this country to a mature realization of its international...
...setting a summit date. At Camp David, President Eisenhower and Prime Minister Macmillan agreed 1) on a foreign ministers' conference to begin on or about May 11 (TIME, March 16), and 2) to go to the summit late this summer. Addendum: the West will accept Polish and Czechoslovakian representatives as observers, but not, as Khrushchev had demanded, as participating delegates. Macmillan made a minor concession: no exact date was set for the summit conference. But the U.S. made a major concession: the summit conference was not made contingent on success at the foreign ministers' talks...
...East Berlin and Naples. Both are by veterans: Slovakian-born Composer Eugen Suchon, 49, and Italian Composer Renzo Rossellini, 50 (sometime music critic and brother of Film Director Roberto Rossellini). Both works are coincidentally and aptly titled The Vortex, but the conflicts they describe are significantly different. While the Czechoslovakian Vortex shows man at war with himself and his dark passions, the Italian Vortex shows man in a death struggle with the steel-cold state...
Married. Olga Fikotova, 24, dark-eyed Czechoslovakian Olympic discus-hurling champ (a record 176 ft. 1½ in.); and U.S. Olympic Team's Harold Connolly, 25, hammer-throw gold medalist and world-record holder (224 ft. 10½ in.); in Prague...