Word: marshaling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lost in Battle. The negotiations in Geneva also seemed stuck among the clouds. Declared Red China's Foreign Minister Marshal Chen Yi contemptuously: "I cannot understand why the United States is trying to win at a conference what it has already lost on the battlefield." With the talks thoroughly deadlocked, U.S. Delegate Averell Harriman invited the pro-Western Minister of Defense, General Phoumi Nesavan. and "Neutralist" Prince Souvanna Phouma to Washington, apparently hoping to get them together on some kind of acceptable coalition government. General Phoumi came, talked to President Kennedy, Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Defense Secretary...
Mostly political and military writers, the group heard a welcome by J. Hampden Robb, University Marshal, and were ushered through two of the University's proudest possessions...
...assignment of policing the ceasefire. In the absence of instruction and equipment, the I.C.C. had not budged from its headquarters in Vientiane. In reply, Gromyko was almost insolent. He saw no need for additional equipment for the I.C.C., and he and Red China's Foreign Minister Marshal Chen Yi took turns denouncing the U.S. for "provoking" new attacks. Instead, Gromyko proposed that the conference move on to other matters. "One cannot sit indefinitely on the shores of Lake Geneva counting the swans," he complained...
Then a second band broke into a number that goes, "Indonesia is free-cha cha cha." Sukarno grabbed Nina Khrushchev for a partner. Nikita leaped up himself, waggled through a few steps, took a bongo drum and thumped it for a while. Then he seized Sukarno's silverheaded marshal's baton and began leading the band. Sukarno said he would expect some new Soviet credits in return...
...going ahead in athletics with an interminable drive, determination, and winning enthusiasm for his sport all the way through school. To these people, athletics is a way of life. "My whole life has centered around athletics," Revenel said recently. "I owe everything to sports." He is the first Class Marshal this year, has received a $5,000 scholarship from Corning Glass Company to travel around the world, has been named co-recipient of the Bingham Award for this year, and has been admitted into Harvard Business School. That's a lot to owe to sports...