Word: east
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rocky even managed to offend the television crews at a Los Angeles press conference by insisting on dividing it into two parts-one for the general press, one for TV. The technique had worked well enough back East, but the Angelenos would have none of it. As the TV crews noisily packed up and marched out in a mass huff, Rockefeller observed wryly: "A lesson in how to win friends and influence people...
Irritating as De Gaulle's lordly disregard of alliance by committee might be, his partners were in no position to make the familiar argument from fear. The idea that everyone must rush to the summit lest Nikita Khrushchev grow impatient and the "momentum" of East-West efforts for peace be lost was less forceful when Khrushchev himself seems to be in no hurry for a summit. The French offered him two dates for his pre-summit visit to Paris-Feb. 20 or mid-March. Khrushchev chose the later date, blandly explaining from wintry Moscow that the weather in Paris...
Special attention was devoted to punting, kickoffs, and pass offense, but the usual polishing of offensive and defensive fundamentals occupied most of the two-hour drill under the lights just east of Harvard Stadium...
...Toro, 54, father of 27 children by quite a few wives, was heartily greeted by U.N. Undersecretary Ralph Bunche. Decked out in his black bowler, black jacket and white ekanzu, King George proved to be quite a wit and character. Supreme native ruler in Britain's East African protectorate, His Majesty agreed with newsmen that the morning was quite chilly, then jovially parted his robe to disclose a suit of long underwear. Dr. Bunche will plot George's U.S. itinerary, which will incorporate the King's wish to view a broad swath of the nation...
Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). A rehash of one of the Western world's most disastrous defeats in the East, The Fall of China to the Communists in 1949. Pearl Buck, General Albert Wedemeyer and General David Barr are on hand to assist Narrator Walter Cronkite...