Word: high
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...English so Americans could understand him. Nixon promised that it would be and-the good lawyer-said quickly: "By the same token, everything that I say will be recorded and translated and carried all over the Soviet Union. That's a bargain." Khrushchev swung his hand in a high, wide arc and literally slapped it into Nixon's to seal the agreement...
...telling Khrushchev that the house was well within the means of U.S. working-class families. The house cost $14,000, Nixon said, and could be paid off over the course of 25 or 30 years. "You know we are having a steel strike," said he, finessing a certain Russian high card. "Well, any steelworker can afford this house." Then the conversation drifted to kitchen equipment and exploded into a cold-war debate that newsmen dubbed the "kitchen conference" and the "Sokolniki summit...
...entrance to the fair is the geodesic dome, a 78-ft.-high, aluminum, gold-anodized building based on the original design by Architect R. Buckminster Fuller, which resembles a giant, gilded armadillo shell and houses a kaleidoscope of scientific and technical exhibits. Across seven screens -which take up one-third of the interior wall space-flash keyed sets of color pictures of U.S. life (e.g., seven cities, seven college campuses, etc., accompanied by Russian commentary and musical score). This unique process was invented by Designer Charles Eames. Watching the thousands of colorful glimpses of the U.S. and its people...
Most Washington newsmen had suspected as much as soon as they picked up their morning newspapers to find Page One splashed with stories detailing the President's thinking on the day's top issues-but attributing the news only to a "high authority." Word soon spread that the President had given a small stag dinner for regular White House correspondents-the first for the press that he had ever held at his house. Present were Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson, Press Secretary James Hagerty, and 13 newsmen-those, as Ike told the news conference, "who have covered me wherever...
...public's hopes have been raised too high," said an Air Force officer, referring to Defense Secretary Neil McElroy's prediction earlier this year that the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile would be operational by July. A succession of five firing failures had washed out the deadline, also considerably sobered Air Force and Convair pressagents. Last week the Air Force reported with relief that an Atlas C, an advanced test model, had passed a routine countdown, then soared some 5,000 miles downrange from Cape Canaveral to deliver its one-ton nose cone with satisfying accuracy near waiting recovery...