Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Giving away nothing, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko tried a feeble side game of trying to drive a wedge between Britain and the other Western powers. The Russians lost no opportunity to point out to U.S., French and West German diplomats how well Gromyko and Britain's Selwyn Lloyd got along, regularly praised Lloyd's speeches as "reasonable" and "well thought...
Andrei Gromyko, the Soviet Union's top diplomat, and Britain's Selwyn Lloyd hammered out an East-West agreement for negotiations to begin in secret Friday. The decision to resort to secret diplomacy came after 12 sessions of stalemated debate on big issues...
...round table so that the Germans could the more easily join them on an equal basis, the Westerners insisted cagily on a square table: four sides, four powers. Instead of beginning their proceedings on time, the four ministers found themselves at the town house of Britain's Selwyn Lloyd, making sketch after sketch of possible seating arrangements on little scraps of yellow paper...
...world's press was not fooled by the Soviet sleight of hand, played the news from Geneva pretty much down the middle. And the Western foreign ministers were determined to catch up with the Russians in handling the press. By week's end, Britain's Lloyd, France's Couve de Murville, and Herter were becoming increasingly available to newsmen. Said one of the foreign ministers to a group of newsmen: "It is for you we are working here-you and public opinion...
...wellspring of any architectural masterpiece lies in its design; blueprints and bricks come later. Even such a titan as the late Frank Lloyd Wright had to wait years to see his "impossible" ideas bear fruit. And the more adventurous the pioneer, the longer the wait. One of the most adventurous of all is Manhattan's Frederick Kiesler, who at 62 has originated more ideas and seen fewer of them built than almost any other architect of his time...