Word: mets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since Khrushchev met Eisenhower at the President's retreat in the Maryland hills, Soviet propagandists have been making great play with what they call "the spirit of Camp David," a 1959 model to replace the spirit of Geneva and the Bandung spirit. The formula is simple: appropriate a place name where talks were held but agreements not reached, then invoke it to imply common agreement of whatever you are for, or to deplore whatever you dislike...
...Maria Castiella y Maiz that "Franco and the Spanish people have rendered great services to the world-the new Spanish stability marks a step toward complete Western European integration." Finally in October, just 300 years after Spain's Chief Minister Luis de Haro and Cardinal Mazarin of France met on a tiny neutral island in the little Bidassoa River to sign the Peace of the Pyrenees, the Foreign Ministers of the two nations met again. What Napoleon did in between was not mentioned. Said Castiella: "The day of complete friendship and loyalty between Europeans has come...
...Cremona, across the Po River from his café. Plunging wholeheartedly into the timeless rituals of Lombard courtship, Francesco promenaded beneath her window, cultivated her friends and relatives, encountered her "by chance" when she went strolling. Angela played her part by being good, like a signorina should. When they met, she would say politely, "Buon-giorno, Signor Ghizzoni" and coolly ignore his urgings to "call me Francesco." He asked for a date, and Angela refused. He sent her gifts. Angela returned them...
...Opera likes to keep one or two operettas in its repertory, if only for purposes of New Year's Eve entertainment. In the past, Manager Rudolf Bing has done well with Strauss's Die Fledermaus and Offenbach's La Péri-chole. Last week the Met unveiled a dazzling production of another Strauss operetta, The Gypsy Baron. While it might please properly champagned New Year's Eve audiences, the Met's Gypsy is more than half a failure for ordinary, year-round consumption...
...Soviet, British, and U.S. scientists met in July, 1958 to discuss the scientific feasibility of detecting nuclear explosions. They agreed that there is little problem in discovering surface tests since successful techniques used in U.S. monitoring of Soviet activities provided much information in this field. Surface explosions produce heat, light, radioactivity and shock waves which, particularly the last two, are identifiable over long distances...