Word: facings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conference on Berlin recessed for three weeks, Secretary of State Herter decided that there was little real prospect of anything but a stalemate at Geneva. Looking ahead to the conference's end, Herter saw two possibilities, both unpleasant: a dangerous hotting-up of the Berlin crisis or a face-losing Western agreement to go to the summit despite President Eisenhower's public avowals that progress at Geneva was a precondition to a summit meeting. As a way of avoiding both alternatives, Herter urged the President to invite Khrushchev to the U.S. Ike had often discussed the pros...
...Chute. As the Crusader lost altitude and sank into the clouds, .Rankin put his life in the hands of the ingenious engineers who had sweated for years to anticipate his problem. He pulled two overhead handles to trigger a fast sequence: 1) a canvas windscreen came down over his face, 2) the plane's canopy blew off, 3) an explosive charge sent seat and pilot into the thin, -65° air, and 4) in the air a cable from the plane yanked the metal seat off his rump, left Marine Rankin above 40,000 feet with his jet helmet...
...conference came to an unlamented stop after 65 days, Gromyko did begrudgingly drop his insistence on a full list of agreements and disagreements, settled for a routine (the talks had been "frank and comprehensive"), face-saving ("The position of both sides on certain points became closer") communique of a spare 149 words. As their final assignment, the foreign ministers had the tricky job of getting out of .the boat without rocking it. At one point, they got stuck over the problem of whether the West and East Germans at Geneva should be described as "advisers who participated," as the West...
...London. There the young competition animal (he was then 28) recognized a man he regarded as fit to be his master. Years afterward an old Marxist friend, cornering Soustelle at an art exhibition, reproachfully demanded: "Jacques, how could you have left us for a man?" "Ah," said Soustelle, his face lighting up, "but what...
...from "critical permissiveness": "Our esthetic yardstick is geared largely to the novel. We expect the same kind of dramatic discoveries from our artists that we do from our scientists. The wide-open mind which accepts anything in the name of art is one of the worst threats that artists face...