Word: longs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Triomphe. There the President saluted, walked past a guard of honor of hard. fit. proud-looking troops, laid a wreath of pink lilies and red roses beside the eternal flame. The President, standing bareheaded, was deeply moved. De Gaulle, several steps to the rear, waited for long moments as the drums rolled and taps broke the evening quiet. Half an hour later, at a surging greeting at the Hotel-de-Ville in the name of the people of Paris, the President responded: "When the heart is full, the tongue is very likely to stumble. I have one small French phrase...
...date. Said the President emphatically: he has seen a dramatic change for the better in France since De Gaulle has taken over -"a sense of purpose.'' And about De Gaulle, the President confided to a friend: "I know he's a stubborn man, but as long as he's stubborn on our side, everything's all right." On the crucial summit issue, Charles de Gaulle was all of that. Said the final U.S.-French communique: "A summit conference, useful in principle, should take place only when there is some possibility of definite accomplishment...
...week long, Soviet Ambassador Mikhail A. Menshikov shuttled back and forth between his embassy on Washington's 16th Street and conferences at the State Department over Nikita Khrushchev's visit. A major general and a colonel of the Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti, the Kremlin's secret police, gumshoed quietly across the country, turning up in such unlikely places as Des Moines and Ames, Iowa to check security angles at airports, hotels and along principal streets. The State Department gulped at the word from Moscow that the size of the Khrushchev official party had reached almost 100, headed...
...going along part way after another long balk, the House voted to take off the 3.26% ceiling on savings-bond interest rates. But Congress' failure to lift the interest ceilings on other long-range U.S. Treasury bonds, the White House hinted, might call for a special session this fall. The President's surprisingly successful stand on legislative matters has thoroughly rocked Democratic leaders accustomed to using their huge majorities for give-a-little-take-a-lot compromises with the White House...
Most other Congressmen, viewing the long-debated bill from all political positions, felt about the same. The Senate promptly passed the bill on what members counted the same as a unanimous vote: only oddball Democrat Wayne Morse of Oregon and oddball Republican William Langer of North Dakota opposed. The House voted next day, 352-52, sent the bill on to the White House. When President Eisenhower signs, as he doubtless will and with some satisfaction, the reform act will become the U.S.'s first substantial labor legislation since the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 (which was passed over President...