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...170th time in 15 months, U.S. Ambassador James J. Wadsworth retraced his worn route into a Geneva conference room last week to make one more patient try at an effective East-West ban on the testing of nuclear weapons. With him, Wadsworth brought a brand-new U.S. approach to the problem and, as always, hope...
Those were the days when aviators were known by the adventures they logged. When the German plane Bremen crash-landed off Labrador after its historic east-west Atlantic crossing in 1928, Quesada and a young captain named Ira Eaker flew north to help save the crew. At one point during that mission, Quesada got lost flying above the clouds. He began thinking "how marvelous it would be if there were some way to do airborne refueling on a continuous basis." Quesada later got Eaker to push his idea with high Air Corps brass. The result was the famous Question Mark...
Adenauer has become increasingly resentful of what he considers U.S. and British indifference to persistent Soviet attempts to persuade the world that the Berlin question is the only obstacle to East-West harmony. Bitterly, Adenauer points out that, while Khrushchev preaches "relaxation of tensions" everywhere else, he loses no opportunity to vilify West Germany. In their latest exchange of notes, Khrushchev compared Adenauer to Hitler in three separate passages, accused the West German government of encouraging anti-Semitism and plotting...
...years, thinly populated Canada was held together by little more than the railway tracks that joined British Columbia to the prairie provinces and eastern industrial towns. During the '50s, vital east-west links were added. In 1958 the publicly-owned Canadian Broadcasting Corp. (TIME, Dec. 14) completed the longest microwave relay network (4,000 miles) in the world. The Trans-Canada pipeline, finished in 1958, put Ontario and Quebec markets within reach of the rich, new Alberta gasfields. By the end of 1960, the last scattered 130 miles of the country's first transcontinental highway - which was only...
...allies fully agreed on a formal invitation to Khrushchev to attend an East-West summit in Paris late in April. Ike took the proposal even further by suggesting a series of summits that might last through his presidential term...