Word: held
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long-held U.S. attitude was that a summit conference was useless if it was nothing but a forum for propaganda; before any summit could live up to expectations, foreign ministers should explore the possibilities of genuinely solving cold-war issues. Harold Macmillan, fresh from Moscow's storm and sunshine, argued that Nikita Khrushchev was really the only Communist worth talking to; Macmillan was willing to go through the motions of a foreign ministers' conference, but he wanted to get right down to setting a summit date. At Camp David, President Eisenhower and Prime Minister Macmillan agreed...
...talks continued behind a wall of privacy calculated to give the participants a chance to thresh out their problems without distractions. At least once a day, Ike's deadpanned Press Secretary Jim Hagerty and Macmillan's ebullient Pressman Peter Hope briefed newsmen at hectic conferences held in a Gettysburg gymnasium 25 miles away from Camp David. Reporters generally had to follow Hagerty and Hope to their hotel rooms for private briefings on what the other briefings had actually been about. Then they returned to the gymnasium for still more clarifying explanations-from each other. But gradually, despite...
Recognition of East Germany. Strongly held U.S. view: no diplomatic recognition; the British do not object to giving East Germany control of the access corridors to Berlin so long as the Russians join in guaranteeing the right of access...
...veto over inspection, but we think some arrangement can be made so there is no swarming in of foreigners." Even in its unilateral decision to halt atom tests for a year beginning last October, the U.S. has leaned far-perilously far, think military experts-from its earlier, long-held position...
Witness after witness took the stand to tell how she had conspired to have her daughter-in-law killed to reclaim the affections of her son Frank, an owl-eyed, 30-year-old lawyer who held hands with her in public, talked with a lisp, was known around the courthouse as "Wicked Wascal Wabbit." Most explicit of all the witnesses were two Santa Barbara ex-convicts, who testified that mother Duncan offered them $6,000 to kill Frank's pregnant wife. They lured her into a rented automobile, beat her into unconsciousness with a pistol, strangled her, then dumped...