Word: eventer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coming before the President on his return to Washington. Although the U.S. remained discreetly silent about its preferences in the British elections, the President could hardly have been less than delighted at the sweeping victory of his old friend Harold Macmillan (see FOREIGN NEWS). And perhaps the most satisfying event of the week was a visit from another friend of the U.S., Mexico's President López Mateos (see HEMISPHERE). Last year, after returning from his tempestuous visit to Latin America, Vice President Nixon recommended that the U.S. distinguish more clearly among the breeds of neighboring national leaders...
...decided,"he recounted modestly, days after the event, "that after all they may as well lose a little money," and he advanced with measured stride to the jam table...
...Macmillan hastily dropped his unruffled "Supermac" pose. "The Labor Party is deeply divided," he told a London suburban crowd. "Some are practically fellow travelers, some almost Communist." And in speech after speech during a tour of Scotland the Prime Minister boldly laid claim to credit for the greatest diplomatic event of the year. "Do you think," he asked, "that Mr. Khrushchev and President Eisenhower would have been discussing together at Camp David if I had not decided to break the ice and go to Moscow last winter...
...totalled only 9,000. At the same time, in New Haven, Yale's much larger "Bowl" was comfortably filled for a game with Brown that held only slightly more interest. The difference: Yale invites Connecticut Boy Scouts, church youth groups, and miscellaneous youngsters' organizations to attend this early season event at a minimum rate, charging twenty-five cents apiece for the kids and slightly higher prices for their leaders...
...Cairo. She is Nahed Hassanein, 4, daughter of a Cairo lawyer and rumored to be the young prince's intended bride. No one could say that it was love; Nahed seemed more taken by a toy animal that Mashhur brought her than by the prince himself. In any event, the tots have plenty of time to get to know each other: if they do marry, it will not be for years...