Word: hourse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Old Convention. Hours after the fourth cable break, Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh Burke called in half a dozen members of his staff and laid out the story. That morning, A.T. & T. had sent a plane over the trouble spot, dropped a note on the Novorossisk's deck: YOU...
Burke accepted the idea, got news of the fifth cable break, and checked out his plan with Defense Secretary Neil McElroy, who notified the White House. Minutes later, the order went from Burke to Norfolk, headquarters of Admiral Jerauld Wright's Atlantic Fleet. Norfolk messaged the U.S. Naval Base...
This was not the first time that a Western state visitor to Moscow had been deliberately humiliated. Konrad Adenauer had been confronted with a cold blackmailer's offer-10,000 German P.W.s would be returned only if Bonn formally recognized Moscow. And on the very evening in 1956 when...
Wearing his Eton tie and an English suit darned at the knee, Burgess called on another Etonian, his old classmate Randolph Churchill, one of the visiting British newsmen, who was disconsolately staying at Moscow's Hotel National. Burgess, now stocky, florid, and with greying hair, seemed fidgety but in...
He appeared here only 24 hours after he wound up what a British-Soviet communique called useful exchanges with British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in Moscow.