Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...talks with Ike nor in their subsequent luncheon with British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd and NATO's Paul-Henri Spaak did Menderes and Karamanlis come to grips with the Cyprus quarrel that has set their countries at daggers drawn, gravely damaged NATO's potential effectiveness in the eastern Mediterranean...
...zone stretching roughly 100 miles on each side of the Iron Curtain in which the armament of both sides would be subject to inspection, and gradually reduced. Eden's plan was premised on the reunification of Germany through free elections. The dividing line would be the eastern border of a reunified Germany, i.e., the present East German border with Poland. Russia, having no intention of reunifying Germany, countered with a proposal for a 500-mile demilitarized zone on either side of the present East-West German border-which would drive U.S. and British troops off the Continent...
...industrial and political upheaval, by flood and famine, has turned its attention inward. Throughout the Asian rimland there are signs-some faint, some clearly visible-that peace and order have begun to creep into the ascendant. Politically, only one nation-Indonesia -still thrashes in chaos. Economically, inflation has hurt eastern Asia less than some others; several nations, led by Japan, are surging toward prosperity...
...casino at the Havana Riviera brings the Cuban capital's tony gambling spots to ten, all authorized by free-and-easy laws aimed at making Havana a strong Eastern competitor for the West's Las Vegas. Batista's government lent $6,000,000 toward the $14 million that the hotel cost. Exactly who supplied how much of the rest of the money is a deep secret; the directors include Toronto Hotelman Harry Smith. Edward Levinson of Las Vegas' Fremont, and a Cuban Senator whose brother happens to be a Cabinet minister...
Died. Maurice Evans ("The California Comet") McLoughlin, 67, hard-hitting pre-World War I tennis champ, who revolutionized the game :by twice winning the U.S. Championship (1912, 1913) with his big serve, violent overhead smashes and net-rushing tactics (all previously unknown in big-time Eastern tennis), retired in 1919 after a decisive quarter-finals loss to Richard Norris Williams II; of a heart attack; in Hermosa Beach, Calif...