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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...keep readers abreast of great events that affect the course of history, TIME'S correspondents, writers and editors work long and intensely on the big stories, e.g., the Geneva conference of foreign ministers (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Toward the Testing, and FOREIGN NEWS, The First Step). But many TIME stories that cast new and fascinating light on life lie far from the scene of such historic encounters. Some of this week's examples...
After stopping over in Bonn for a talk with Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, Secretary of State Herter flew into Geneva at week's end to speak for the U.S. at the Big Four foreign ministers' meeting on Germany. Ahead of him, in the negotiations at Geneva's history-haunted Palais des Nations, Chris Herter faced the sternest test of skill and nerve of his career...
...exhibit abuilding for the Moscow fair last week, the West caught an echo of the missile-rattling Khrushchev when he told a group of visiting West German editors that in any nuclear war "the Western powers would be literally wiped off the face of the earth" (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, who had decried the package in advance as a tangle of unrelated issues, was quiet during the Big Four conference...
Several Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee also got to squabbling among themselves at a hearing on the nominations of C. Douglas Dillon to be chief assistant to the secretary of state, and Ogden R. Reid to be ambassador to Israel...