Word: meetings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gromyko," said Herter himself early in the week, "appears to mistake the moves we have made to meet him halfway as signs of weakness." And so Gromyko did. In the eighth week of "negotiations" at Geneva, with the mechanical insistence of a recorded time signal, he reiterated demands that the West could not agree to without, in effect, weakening Berlin and laying West Germany itself open to Moscow meddling. Early in the week Herter with lawyerlike logic spelled out Western objections, wound up by threatening to break off the talks unless Russia modified its stand. Gromyko then made a largely...
...inches to a place behind the thick base of the table and thus provided Hitler with a shield against the blast, World War II might have ended within a few days. As it was, Hitler suffered only a burst eardrum and a bruised arm, was well enough to meet Mussolini at the station that very afternoon. But though the plot of July 20 failed, it later began to haunt the Germans. Were the plotters traitors or heroes? Last week West Germany showed it had finally, officially, made up its mind...
...specific program, designed to meet the challenges of the next decade, includes continued military buildup regardless of cost, American support for Afro-Asian independence even in Algeria, adoption of a realistic China policy "in our own national interest," and American initiative in disarmament negotiations. As a final proposal, Finletter urged a complete disarmament plan "safeguarded at all stages...
planned to meet rising European and U.S. small-car competition. Company will add $125 million in plant and equipment to boost daily output from 2,400 to 3,000 cars...
CONTINENTAL CAN Co. Half-year sales jumped to $535 million from $499 million, upping earnings to $1.54 a share from $1.44-despite a price cut in metal cans to meet competition...