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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stage-Struclc. In Broken Bow, Neb., while participating in an Old West celebration, Banker Thomas T. Varney Jr. fired blanks enthusiastically at fleeing make-believe robbers, discovered too late that the shells were loaded with birdshot, sent one of his victims a new hat, the other an air pillow...
Midway in the second day of their man-to-man talks at Camp David on Maryland's Catoctin Mountain, President Eisenhower turned to Nikita Khrushchev with a personal appeal. Said he: "You have the opportunity to make a great contribution to history by making it possible to ease tensions. It is within your hands." Nikita Khrushchev, unchallenged ruler of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and its satellites, was in an unusual position. His was the line that the U.S. was blocking world peace. Yet, in the strangely relaxed and friendly atmosphere of the guarded mountain retreat, Dwight Eisenhower...
Back at Camp David, the last round of talks got under way as soon as he got home. Again the President laid down to Khrushchev his basic requirement of good faith: Khrushchev must make it plain that Western rights to remain in West Berlin will not be impaired, and he must remove all threats. Khrushchev at last conceded. The details: 1) Eisenhower and Khrushchev would agree in a formal communique to reopen negotiations on the future of Berlin and Germany; 2) Eisenhower would say publicly this week that Khrushchev had withdrawn all cut-off dates and time limits on Western...
Holy Cross beat Dartmouth 31 to 8. but Dartmouth Man Rockefeller seemed to be running up plenty of political yardage. At half time, students marched onto the field to spell out a big N.Y., then shifted to make it N.R. In an open-air speech to undergraduates after the game, Rockefeller told a punny story about six men in a boat. When the boat capsized, another small boat came to the rescue, but lacked room to take all six aboard. "Can you float alone?" a rescuer called to a man still in the water. "Yes," he yelled, "but why should...
...questioning of McCuistion and King and to have seen no signs of brutality. But when Sergeant McCuistion asked the judge to question one of the witnesses more closely on timing, the judge coolly remarked: "Well, who would think of marking down the date anyway." Nor did the court make any attempt to call another of the arrested Americans, Staff Sergeant Joseph Proietti, who did not claim to have been beaten himself but who last week wrote to his brother in New York...