Word: globe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...total of 152,128 miles on 14 diplomatic missions outside the continental U.S. since taking office. Moreover, he is the first Secretary of State to use travel as part of his method of operation. Dulles, by frequently putting the secretarial ear to the ground at various points on the globe, combines the benefits of localized U.S. embassy reports with his own understanding of the global situation. And at age 66 he has made a discovery that Grandfather John Watson Foster (President Benjamin Harrison's Secretary of State) would find hard to believe: a modern-day Secretary of State...
Last week was a week of scientific conventions. In half a dozen cities around the globe, scientists milled in their large, confused gatherings, swapped ideas, canvassed covertly for better jobs and passed along the gossip of their professional circles. When not so engaged, they listened to some of the news of their trade. Items...
...localized wars because, human nature being what it is, it will take a long time for people who have always turned to force to learn the ways of reason and peace. But in the United Nations we have the machinery for helping people in every corner of the globe to become educated...
...victory for everybody. Iran regained its main source of revenue; Britain salvaged a handsome reward from what once seemed a total loss; the U.S. found itself participating for the first time in one of the world's richest oilfields. More than that, a strategic chunk of the globe's surface was made safer from Communist penetration. Last week, in the cool garden of Elah-yeh Palace outside Teheran, Iran's Finance Minister and a U.S. oil negotiator put their initials on a settlement of the vexed Anglo-Iranian oil dispute. A formula had at last been found...
With the Statler chain in his pocket, Connie Hilton has pulled far into the lead as the world's biggest hotel operator (27 hotels around the globe, 30,000 rooms). Says he: "When you consider how big the hotel business really is, we've got a long way to go. We're just starting...