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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are plenty of problems to be solved among the allies, and some of them must be solved before the West is ready to present Khrushchev with a solid front. But Ike's trip, and even De Gaulle's assertion of independence, made it clear that the West would be dealing at the summit from a new kind of strength, backed by a new kind of world confidence and support...
...boxy brick house in a drab West Side Chicago neighborhood. Ethel Alesia was late cleaning up the dinner dishes. As she moved around her kitchen one night last week, she half-listened for steps on the front porch-her brother had promised faithfully to be home by 10:30, a good half-hour before the 11 p.m. curfew of his prison parole. For an instant she thought she heard the steps. Then, unmistakably, she heard another sound she had also been half-listening for: the harsh roar of shotgun fire. She rushed to the front porch, found two men twitching...
...protege, 22-year-old New Zealander Bruce McLaren in another Cooper-Climax. But World Champion Jack Brabham doggedly kept going, gave one last shove at the line, collapsed on the pavement, retched, quickly recovered enough to grin: "They should have built that machine with a rope on the front...
...Little Town ... In Newark, police and firemen set up ladders and nets in front of a department store when Leo Kotomski crawled out on its third-story ledge, disbanded when they learned that Kotomski was only looking over Christmas decorations...
...Manhattan store packed with Christmas shoppers, an impatient customer stopped in front of a display typewriter and banged out a desperate note: "Why don't you wait on me?" All over the U.S. last week, harried clerks were faced with similar problems as they tried to placate hordes of well-heeled customers who nocked into the stores for a record Christmas-buying spree. Dun & Bradstreet analysts estimated that sales in the nation's department stores and mail-order houses will reach a record $2.4 billion in December, up $200 million from 1958, the previous record...