Word: mutuals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...looked forward to American cooperation with other nations in learning "how we can apply to ever-changing conditions the never-changing principles of freedom." He said: "If we are to achieve a peaceful world, it will be accomplished through ideas rather than armaments, through a sense of justice and mutual friendship rather than with guns and bombs and guided missiles." He reminded the assembled lawyers that the American system was under hard scrutiny, and listed current defects of special concern to the bar: delays in litigation, violations of civil liberties, legal pettifogging and loose court procedures. He called for correction...
...night there was a ten-course dinner for 400 at The House of Magnanimity (a former imperial palace), where the menu featured melon prepared in the shape of the shaven head of one of Buddha's disciples. On another occasion, a reception for 600, 23 toasts of mutual friendship and admiration were drunk in red and yellow wine-and they were kanpei (bottoms up) toasts. It was all very heady stuff...
...easy to guess what their hosts will be anxious to show them . . . Mr. Attlee. Mr. Bevan and their companions will visit "model villages" and "mutual aid" farms . . . they will relax beside peaceful lakes, and they will be shown films depicting 'the regime's progress and its peaceful intentions...
...Yugoslavia's picture-postcard resort of Bled, in a villa once built for the royal family of Yugoslavia, Communist Tito last week signed a 20-year "treaty of alliance, political cooperation and mutual assistance" with Greece and Turkey. Just six years ago, Tito's Yugoslavia was arming Red guerrillas fighting in Greece; a generation ago, Greeks and Turks were deep in a bloody war with one another. The new alliance joined together three nations with more than a million soldiers under arms: Turkey, 450,000; Yugoslavia, up to 600,000; Greece...
When the hum of mutual compliments and tinkling of glasses had died away, it looked as if the gallery would soon have funds for not one but two rest rooms. To some Woodstock's gaiety seemed too close to complacency-none of the big names had produced works for the occasion that were important, or even particularly adventurous. Grumbled Abstract Sculptor Herman Cherry: "Cocktail parties . . . flourish like poison ivy in this vicinity." But most Woodstock artists find that oil and Martinis mix well enough, and that art need not be great to be worth while...