Word: discussions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mineral water: one from the North Caucasus, one from the South Caucasus. Khrushchev, wearing two Orders of Lenin medals on the left lapel of his dark suit jacket, waved his visitor to a chair at the table, took another for himself. "What," he asked, "would you like to discuss?" Replied Minnesota's endlessly ebullient, hardheadedly liberal Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey: "Many things." And for 83-hours last week Nikita Khrushchev and Hubert Humphrey indeed discussed many things: it was the longest, perhaps the most revealing and certainly the most fascinating audience ever given by a Soviet Premier...
...rights by Birmingham's police force. Six weeks ago Birmingham's cops arrested three Negro ministers from Montgomery who were caught talking with local Negro leaders about a possible bus boycott, charged them with vagrancy. Said Birmingham's police chief, Eugene Connor, who refused even to discuss the case with FBI agents: "I haven't got any damn apology to the FBI or anybody else. Maybe I just didn't tell the FBI what Rogers wanted me to tell them. Maybe that's why that jackass is yapping his brains...
...time not arrived to reach for a larger settlement with the Russians about Germany's future status? "Ja, fine," said the old man, "we can discuss reunification at the same time." Adenauer had not changed: with him it was still reunification über alles. Next day Adenauer admonished the "flexibles" among his own party's Bundestag Deputies to stand "absolutely firm" with the West against wider negotiations over Berlin...
Owen Lattimore, Lecturer on the Far East at Johns Hopkins University, last night attacked the American public's failure to discuss the important issues involved in U.S. policy toward China...
...hard to know exactly what to make of Ruth. For a time she appears as a disillusioned Leftist intellectual: she says she has just quit the party, after "seventeen years. It's rather like walking out on a lover." She and Dillon discuss this major crisis in her life for half a page or so, and then drop it, permanently...