Word: deal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet proposal is a good deal simpler than the Western plan, and hence it is easier to dismiss. Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko has asked that the Big Four sign separate peace treaties with the "two German states" and then undertake the joint administration of West Berlin as a "free city." Western acceptance of this plan means recognition of East Germany, abandonment of the traditional policy of re-unification through free elections, and admission that while the East Germans have a right to East Berlin as their "capital" West Berlin must remain under political tutelage--with a new and rather...
...says Burnham, the presidency has become "the primary democratist institution." A democratist tone was already audible in President-to-be Woodrow Wilson's pronouncement, back in 1908, that the U.S. "craves a single leader." Democratism's big thrust came in the early years of the New Deal, with Franklin Roosevelt pushing batches of White House bills through Congress and even challenging the Supreme Court in his notorious (but illfated) court-packing plan...
...long as it takes two to make a deal, and four to make a peace treaty, Russia's cynicism was justified. Khrushchev wanted only a summit: Eisenhower agreed that Khrushchev ''is the only man who has ... the authority to negotiate." The proxies, their homework done, gathered in Geneva before a thousand staring cameras, with no high hopes. The very first interplay-over tables round or square, over Germans at the table or beside it (see below)-was the kind of picayune fuss that discredits the whole practice of diplomacy. The quick-witted journalists surrounding the closed room...
...long as it takes two to make a deal, and four to make a peace treaty, Russia had it in its power to make Geneva a failure. But diplomacy is a continuous game, and there are other ways of scoring it than at the end of each inning. It took 400 seemingly fruitless meetings to end Rus sia's obduracy and achieve an independent Austria; a similar process of exploration, cross-questioning and testing of intentions would be needed if mutual agreement, in stead of the caprice of history, is to settle the future of Germany and of European...
...Donald the Arctic" Marsh, 55. whose diocese covers more than 2,750,000 square miles and who has spent 33 years there: "Living in a primitive society, the Eskimo had many of the same problems as the Biblical characters. To him, the moral background was perfectly understandable. A great deal of the conception of the Gospel was already there. Being a realist, he tried to put Christianity into practice, and he did it successfully...