Word: doves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lissome Anny Gould, a Parisian nightclub singer, thought some U.N. publicity might be exciting. While press photographers stood by, she waited last Friday on the steps of the Palais de Chaillot, ready to present her pet dove to the first U.N. delegate to appear. Johnny on the spot was Andrei Vishinsky. As shutters snapped, Anny stage-smiled and offered the dove to Vishinsky. "A symbol," said she, "of the peace we all want...
Before the paint was dry on the $3,000, 000 temporary new U.N. building, facing the Eiffel Tower across the Seine, the buzz of diplomacy began. The Egyptians wooed their fellow Arabs; the Russians tended their dovecotes secretly, but undoubtedly had some new mutation of peace dove to exhibit. Acheson and Eden ate dinner together, and had private talks with France's Robert Schuman. Schuman thereupon announced that the West had prepared a U.N. peace program that would be "a world sensation...
...liked that dance where the doves flew all over you, Miss Royce. How much do they get for this act? It must take a long time to teach a dove where to sit on you. I don't suppose there's an opening for an Ibis...
...first autumn monsoon over the weekend, the University witnessed winds of 60 miles per hour and heavy rains totalling almost two inches. Students who could find hip boots waded through four inches of water covering Boylston Street. Others raced about to buy antifreeze or drain radiators when the thermometer dove to 32 degrees...
...Word. As usual, the Kremlin's course was clouded by a diversionary sprinkling of dove feathers. A fortnight ago Vladimir Semenov, Russian "political adviser" to the Soviet high commissioner in Berlin, returned from two weeks in Moscow. Next day he called a meeting of top Communists in East Berlin and gave them the word straight from headquarters: Russia's dominant aim now, more important even than Korea, is to prevent at all costs West Germany's rearmament and integration into the West defenses...