Word: ended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...send U.S. experts to Geneva anyway, leaving it up to Moscow to break the engagement. Announced Dulles, at a special White House press conference: "As far as we are concerned, we expect the conference to proceed, and our experts will continue on their way." At week's end Russian experts were on their...
...without fear of "retaliation or penalty." But McElroy reserves the right to be "disappointed or regretful" over their views. Implication between the lines: an officer who sharply takes issue with the President and the Defense Secretary cannot expect them to like it-or forget it. Russell pronounces himself satisfied. End of flap...
Friendship's End. The blowup came over Goldfine's project to build a garage under Boston Common. After it became a losing venture despite some uncommon help from Boston's Mayor James Michael Curley and Governor Dever, Goldfine still managed to talk Fox into investing in it. At a 1955 showdown meeting at which Fox was supposed to settle up, Goldfine claims that Fox walked out-and Fox last week claimed that Goldfine disappeared after saying "he had to go to the men's room...
Production of Boeing's 707 jet transport is racing eight months ahead of schedule, and certification is going along so smoothly that the first planes will start hauling passengers barely four months from now. By the end of the year, American Airlines President C. R. Smith and Pan American Boss Juan T. Trippe plan to have eleven jets in the air. The trouble is that the U.S. airways are not-and will not be-ready to mix the 550-m.p.h. jets with 350-m.p.h. piston planes in real safety...
...painter friend introduces Yozo to "the mysteries of drink, cigarettes, prostitutes, pawnshops and left-wing thought." For a young man whose will is as weak as his life drive, this strange combination paves the road to the lower depths. Yozo has an affair with a waitress, but fluffs his end of their suicide pact. Scrabbling for a living as a second-rate cartoonist, he is kept, for a time, by a woman journalist. To keep himself in cheap gin, the cartoonist sinks to pornography. Toward novel's end, Yozo is even ready to make love to a monstrously crippled...