Word: hardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Underwhelmed. If Nixon remained an ill-defined figure to the mass of Europeans, he nonetheless registered impressively with their heads of government. In eight days of confrontations with them, he was assured and well-informed, displaying modesty and a hard intelligence, common sense and a very uncommon determination. There were no grand new visions or invocations of ancient splendor. Nixon's was an understated performance, and it was successful exactly for that reason. He went to listen to Europe's leaders, and there is no more popular conversationalist than a good listener...
Condition Serious. To their dismay, the doctors soon discovered that Eisenhower had developed pneumonia in his right lung during his convalescence, a common postoperative occurrence among the elderly. While the pneumonia was being "treated vigorously" with antibiotics, the respiratory complication made it hard for Eisenhower to breathe...
...group got off to a good start: Lockheed Aircraft Corp. agreed to lease 6.5 acres and build an aircraft-parts manufacturing plant that will employ 300 persons, including as many hard-core unemployed as possible. Allen promised that the park will also be open to local small businessmen. "What we are doing in Watts," he said, "is what should be done in every ghetto in America...
...Boss Walter Ulbricht had sent a compromise proposal similar to Tsarapkin's to West Germany. Ultimately the most widely accepted supposition in the west was that Ulbricht had only reluctantly gone along with the initiative in the first place. By that theory, he later succeeded in persuading the hard-liners in the Kremlin leadership to override the compromise offer and insist on conditions that were patently unacceptable to West Berlin and West Germany...
...third woman to rule Israel and the territory that was ancient Judah (after two Biblical predecessors, Jezebel's daughter Athaliah and Queen Alexandra). A longtime aide to Premier David Ben-Gurion, who once called her "the only man in my Cabinet" because she firmly backed his hard-lining policies toward the Arabs, she served as Labor Minister, and later as Foreign Minister for ten years. In 1966, she retired from the government, but until last summer remained Secretary General of the Israel Labor Party...