Word: east
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slaps at Britain and provoked a cross-Channel exchange of insults, thus bringing into the open the stress and strains of the postwar marriage of convenience between Britain and West Germany. But Britain, and particularly its press, was somewhat at odds with all its partners on the eve of East-West negotiations. See FOREIGN NEWS. The Strange British Mood...
Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr., 35, Navy lieutenant commander; 160 lbs., 5 ft. 11 in., blue eyes, brown hair. Christian Scientist. Born: East Derry, N.H.; graduated U.S. Naval Academy, '44 (462nd in a class of 913). In World War II, Al Shepard saw Pacific combat on the destroyer Cogswell, then won his wings ('47), and after a Mediterranean tour with the fleet qualified as a test pilot, flew high-altitude research missions, helped develop the Navy's in-flight refueling system and carrier landings of the F2H-3 Banshee. With 3,600 flight hours (1,700 in jets...
...undercut Germany's position in negotiations with Russia; he felt deep dismay over John Foster Dulles' illness and the new American faces he must deal with; he felt pain at De Gaulle's public acceptance of the Oder-Neisse line as the German frontier on the east. His suspicions of the British burst out in the open before the week...
...Cologne in 1945 for "insufficient display of energy." And when Harold Macmillan failed to consult him before setting off to Moscow last month, all Adenauer's suppressed distrust of Britain was reawakened. Bitterly, Adenauer concluded that Macmillan was preparing to offer Khrushchev de facto recognition of Communist East Germany, thereby selling out a vital West German diplomatic position without even asking how Bonn felt about...
West Point weather at this time of year is legendarily bad, and it will take a great deal of spirit to overcome the elements and defeat the team that the New York writers are calling the best in the East...