Word: exchangees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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At the dacha next day, Nixon and Khrushchev issued a joint statement protesting that their exchange at the U.S. exhibition, while "frank," was not "belligerent." Then Khrushchev took his guests for a ride on the Moscow River in a 25-ft. motor boat. Eight times Khrushchev had the boat stopped...
* The full exchange was duly broadcast in the U.S. by the three major television networks, with an English translation of everything Khrushchev said.
Lesson in Etiquette. The Polish tour ended without any serious mishap for Khrushchev, but nonetheless, as the New York Times Correspondent A. M. Rosenthal reported, "Khrushchev usually got ten seconds of applause in exchange for about fifty minutes of speech."
Tighten Up. To qualify for substantial foreign help, able Commerce Minister Alberto Ullastres (a former economics professor) flew home from a last round of conferences in Washington and Paris, to start a long list of major reforms. The government decreed that the peseta, which up until now has been subject...
Hope for the Best. With so much to do in so short a time, a little confusion was inevitable, but the Franco regime has a special talent for it. Though the whole world knew about the devaluation of the new peseta, the government forgot to inform its own foreign-exchange...