Word: davide
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...policies. Forewarned by London press leaks and by its own intelligence from Western Europe, the U.S. was partly forearmed; soon after Macmillan landed he was deliberately whisked away from the pressures and pressagentry temptations of Washington to the quiet of President Eisenhower's Catoctin Mountain hideaway, Camp David. There Old Friends Eisenhower and Macmillan (a political adviser on General Ike's staff during the North African campaign in World War II) explored the road to the summit...
...Macmillan, fresh from Moscow's storm and sunshine, argued that Nikita Khrushchev was really the only Communist worth talking to; Macmillan was willing to go through the motions of a foreign ministers' conference, but he wanted to get right down to 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...
...present, the committee can boast only 15 members, five or six of whom are "consistently energetic," and the dreams of national influence are fading fast. "Students feel that the policies involved are too complicated to be tackled by private citizens," said President David Hamilton '62, "and the initial wave of interest in getting negotiations started has subsided, leaving us to cross our fingers and hope a compromise will be worked...
Leading off the series will be a discussion on Harvard-Radcliffe integration, with Dean Monro, Dean Brown, David E. Owen '27, Master of Winthrop House, and Elliot Perkins '23, Master of Lowell House. Owen was the first Master to affiliate his House with a Radcliffe Hall, while Perkins has been an outspoken opponent of affiliation...
...When the Houses were first established students feared they would have proctors watching every move they make," David E. Owen '27, Master of Winthrop House, said. "It's one of the successes of the House system that we are now hearing the other tune...