Word: ending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...says a top Utah politician. "He doesn't woo his followers. You can't say that about any of the others." This complicates the task of the active candidates both in primaries and in backroom maneuvering, and increases the possibility of a stalemated convention. Stevenson could easily end the strain by endorsing another candidate, but he has not, and in that state of affairs his followers see hope and unspoken promise...
...week began, Washington was talking clearly of a December summit, to be preceded-perhaps at the end of October-by a pre-summit planning meeting in Paris between Eisenhower, Macmillan, De Gaulle and Adenauer. Then, through "presidential channels" (a category of communication with an even higher security rating than "top secret"), came word from De Gaulle to Ike that he thought summit talks should wait until next spring, and that in the meantime, he had invited Nikita Khrushchev to come visit him in Paris. To his Augusta press conference, Eisenhower sighed: "I was thinking we could do this...
Nine Dead. At week's end word reached New Delhi that Chinese and Indian troops had clashed in their bloodiest border battle yet. "Now the fat is really in the fire," cried one Indian official. The fighting took place, New Delhi announced, at a place called Hot Springs in the district of Ladakh, 45 miles from the Kashmir-Tibet border. When two Indian constables failed to return to their camp from a patrol, a searching party of 60 to 70 Indians set out to look for them. From a hilltop Chinese troops opened fire. The Indians fired back...
...Paris at week's end, Farah Diba was in full flight from reporters and photographers, refused to answer any questions. A foresighted newsman who had boarded her Paris-bound plane at Geneva asked her, "Will you be the next Queen of Iran?" Replied Farah, with an air of someone who knows a secret, "Ah, do you think...
...Caesars. Last week, joining a long line of outraged traditionalists ranging from the Emperor Majorian (A.D. 457-461) to Pope Pius II (1458-64), famed Italian Novelist Alberto Moravia lamented: "The Dark Ages and the Barbarians are come again. But this time they have modern means. This is the end of Rome...