Word: mike
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Smiling Mike. But the U.S. officials recognized that Khrushchev's professions of sincerity, genuine as some of them sounded, might well be nothing more than more Communist talk. To test Khrushchev's good faith, they urged that the U.S. quickly make proposals for East-West agreements in a dozen different areas, e.g., a controlled nuclear ban, renewed negotiations on the U.S.S.R.'s lend-lease account with the U.S., an end to Soviet jamming of U.S. broadcasts beamed to the U.S.S.R...
...nuisance of the Khrushchev visit, according to the reports given the President, was the U.S.S.R.'s Ambassador to the U.S. Mikhail ("Smiling Mike") Menshikov, who missed no chance to downgrade the U.S. to his boss. U.S. officials reasoned that Menshikov had been tailoring his reports on the U.S. so as to fit Kremlin conceptions, and that he was trying to justify his misreporting during the Khrushchev visit. When Khrushchev received a cap as a gift on the West Coast, Menshikov went into elaborate detail about the Italian hat industry's being far superior. Spotting a small cloud...
...starting line for the Yardlings today will be Ron Bonebreak, left end, Dick Diehl, left tackle, Walter Kelly, left guard, and Bart Francis, center. The right guard is Steve Shullman; right tackle, Mike Auer; and right end, Bob Kicnchloe...
...casts him as a theatrical producer, a sort of oaken image of Mike Todd. He has two phones in his car, spends an annual $785 in the barbershop and has an ex-wife (Lilli Palmer) who hovers about to protect her alimony, always remembering the anniversary of their divorce; she once gave him a hot-water bottle that snored. At 56, age is closing in. He wears a wrist alarm clock; when it goes off, it is time to take his pills...
...last the World Bank has gotten around to enacting Senator Mike Monroney's excellent proposal for an International Development Association. The new agency will supplement World Bank activities with easier, "softer" loans to underdeveloped nations. Recipients will be able to pay their debts to the IDA in their own local currencies, and they will later receive a second economic boost when this money is used by the agency to buy local products...