Word: neared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Borden, 26, Law Partner William M. Blair, and Russian Specialist Robert Tucker, he found official smiles and small but friendly crowds in big cities, rural hamlets, Siberian industrial towns rarely seen by Westerners. Among the trip's happiest chapters: a lavish official picnic in a forest near Sverdlovsk, within sight of a boundary marker inscribed "Europe" on one side and "Asia" on the other; a leisurely trip up the Volga in a side-wheel steamer left over from Czarist days. "Everywhere I went," said Stevenson politely at a farewell reception in Moscow, "I saw signs and heard speeches urging...
...Mills, chairman of House Ways & Means Committee. House result: 317 to 98 for the President's program, an astonishing victory. But reciprocal trade ran into trouble with the protectionist-dominated Senate Finance Committee. Senate result: a relatively weak bill, with three-year extension and 15% tariff-cut authority. Near-certain final outcome: a good bill, with House-Senate compromise of four-year extension, longer than ever before, and 20% tariff-cut authority, more than ever before...
...framework of the U.N. Security Council. Then, early last week, in one of the most dizzying of Russia's many dizzying 180° turns, Khrushchev abruptly announced that "the Security Council was not in a position to ensure solution of the question of the situation in the Near and Middle East." Reasons: "The Security Council . . . is practically subordinated to U.S. foreign policy" and, besides, it includes "the representative of a political corpse, Chiang Kai-shek." Both of these so-called facts existed when Khrushchev originally accepted a Security Council summit...
Joint Chuckle. Reaction to Khrushchev's naked renege ranged from sneers to near tears. "On again, off again, Finnigin," shrugged Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. KHRUSHCHEV MAKES FOOL OF HIMSELF, headlined London's tabloid Daily Mirror. "Responsibility for evading [a summit] meeting with the Security Council rests squarely with the Soviet Union," lamented the Times of India...
...general strike, so harmful to trade, was supposed to continue, a bomb exploded in a Beirut coffeehouse, killing two innocent bystanders and wounding another. While U.S. marines got their first liberty, 2,000 at a time, in Beirut, a pro-Chamoun leader and two of his aides were found near the Syrian border with their throats slit from...