Word: instead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Regardless of our low opinion of the dictator, his visit may be a very important part of our last civilized chance to work out the survival of the human race. Every year that we can talk instead of shoot, the U.S.S.R. moves inevitably toward Western civilization...
What Nikita Khrushchev really saw of the U.S. was next to nothing. By his own order, he bypassed such monuments to U.S. achievement as the Tennessee Valley Authority, and by his own disinterest, he did not look upon the unparalleled industrial complex between Washington and New York City. Instead, he set his own course through the serried ranks of U.S. diplomats, businessmen, civic brasshats and movie actresses, as if in search of more Marxist cliches to take home. Even when his hosts drove him through towns with tall white steeples, through prosperous farms, friendly campuses and towering skyscrapers, he barely...
...Commons. Hard-bitten Fleet Street reporters chipped in to pay for Podola's defense. But when the time came for Podola's trial last week, it was neither police brutality nor ordinary insanity at the time of the crime that was offered as Podola's defense. Instead, Defense Counsel Frederick Lawton, Q.C., argued that "a very, very severe fright," possibly triggered by the events of Podola's arrest, had "brought about his loss of memory...
...fashion, Laotians last week gave a red-carpet welcome to the fact-finding subcommittee sent by the U.N. Security Council to determine formally whether Laos is a victim of foreign Communist aggression. There were no military bands, no spotless guard of honor, no protocol-wise assemblage of local diplomats. Instead, hundreds of lissome girls wearing flowing silk scarves and brilliant sarongs trimmed with gold appeared at the airport bearing silver bowls of flowers. It was the traditional Laotian "welcome in beauty," which requires that the wisest and most beautiful girls of a village greet an important stranger by kneeling along...
...Geneva Conference on Indo-China should meet again and revive the three-power (India, Poland, Canada) International Control Commission for Laos. The U.S., recalling that the Laos government itself 16 months ago refused to tolerate the Control Commission's interference any longer, rejected the Soviet proposal, recommended instead "the cessation of Communist intervention and subversion" in Laos. Backing up its words with deeds, the U.S. continued to pour into Vientiane light military equipment and civilian instructors, including hastily demobilized Army Signal Corps men; by week's end the U.S. population of Laos (about 600) was double what...