Word: internationale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In the West, Khrushchev's 13-day tour of the U.S. had produced an indefinable relaxation of mood. None of the causes of conflict had really been removed, but somehow everybody seemed to feel better. Campaigning in Britain, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan jauntily announced that "everybody is agreed" to...
From Waltham, Mass, came news that Brandeis University has taken on Eleanor Roosevelt, 75 next week, as a visiting lecturer. Brandeis Trustee Roosevelt will conduct a small seminar about once a month through the current school year, concentrate on the United Nations in a course called Politics 175?, International Organization...
Queen Elisabeth Concours, Moscow's International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition (which brought previous Leventritt Winner Van Cliburn to fame). Before some of the keenest musical ears in the world,* 58 contestants (all pianists this year) pounded their way through nine days of preliminary competition. By the time they picked the...
When the finance ministers and central bankers of 68 nations gathered in Washington last week for the annual meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, they got a stern if fatherly lecture from U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson. Anderson underscored what the delegates already knew: the U.S. is...
Anderson got strong backing from Per Jacobsson, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, who charged that dollar restrictions are now being used as "protectionist devices" to keep down foreign competition. To Anderson's great satisfaction, Jacobsson virtually signed the death warrant for dollar discrimination by promising that the...