Word: ende
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kitchen, bath) to pay early-morning calls on other patients in nearby rooms. On his 71st birthday-Feb. 25-he had not one but three parties. Before noon the hospital staff brought him two presents:1) a big birthday cake, 2) a "cheering" report on his progress at the end of his first week of radiation treatments...
...meeting at the White House, he passed the word in firm tones: "It is my responsibility." In press conference he praised Senators who (unlike Symington and Humphrey) "have expressed very prayerfully their great hope that he will be spared to go on with his work." By week's end Eisenhower's plain words had wiped out any excuses for confusion: Dulles would not retire unless he declared himself physically unfit...
...Russia is not fundamentally interested in "relaxation of tensions," in the Rapacki disengagement plan, a "thinning out" of Soviet and U.S. troops in Central Europe, or any other ingenious schemes for an overall settlement of the German problem. What Khrushchev is determined to do, beyond all else, is t01) end Berlin's status as an outpost of Western power, and 2) oblige the West to accept, openly or implicitly, the permanence of the East German Communist state. To force the West's hand, Khrushchev denies that the Western powers any longer possess World War II "conquerors' rights...
Then reports of the outside world's shock over the treatment Harold Macmillan had received began to reach Moscow. At that the barometer began to rise a little. At week's end when Macmillan flew into Leningrad, a crowd tens of thousands strong lined the roads to greet him. Also on hand, unexpectedly, were Mikoyan and Gromyko, both radiating good cheer...
...support and was widely regarded as the Chancellor's likely successor. But the old man, still tolerating no rivals at 83, moved suddenly and swiftly to shove his most powerful minister up to the largely honorific office that President Theodor Heuss is to vacate next July at the end of two five-year terms...