Word: guested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Khrushchev's real net: he was turning lukewarm about a chiefs-of-state meeting at the eleven-nation U.N. Security Council-"You know very well ... it has not decided anything so far"-instead preferred private talks. Khrushchev's guest list: the U.S.S.R., the U.S., Britain, France, India, U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold. Places to go: New York, Paris, Vienna, Geneva, Moscow...
...most enterprising artistic coup cost nothing. Knowing that many of Paris' famed artists amiably sign the guest books kept by most Paris cafés and often add a quick sketch, Plimpton and Du Bois spent weeks going from café to café to search the books, turned up a fascinating collection of spontaneous sketches by Matisse, Picasso, Dufy, Derain, Buffet and even the long dead Toulouse-Lautrec...
Counterbalance? Seldom was a guest from a small country more welcome. The State Department saw the nationalism of his year-old country and the promise of his African leadership as a possible future counterbalance to rampant nationalism spreading from the Mideast. Beyond such practical prospects, the vigorous, fit-at-48 African leader seemed to give his Nasser-stung hosts a timely, personal reassurance that they have not become the world's abominable rich uncle. He knew all there was to know about the evils of U.S. segregation because, as a young student just in from Africa's Gold...
...embarrassedly denied that Nasser had gone back for Tito's advice before rushing to Moscow, insisted that Nasser must have gone ashore in Albania and taken a plane from there. The Russians, with widespread pleasure, proclaimed that the idol of the Arab masses had once again been their guest, this time to seek their help against the "American aggressors." But from Cairo came a wholly different version, indicating that Nasser's main purpose in flying to Moscow was to appeal to Khrushchev not to take any warlike action in the Middle East. The flight betrayed his jitters...
...music festival, enabling George Conway to palm himself off on the foreign orchestra as the great man himself, and to scourge the players through many a furious rehearsal. It ends happily ever after with Uncle George not only promoted to Assistant Secretary to the Ministry but also appointed official "guest-conductor" to Europe's finest orchestra...