Word: neutralization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Architect Bernard Guenther: "Nowadays, when the fellow upstairs rolls a pair of dice, you can tell when they come up seven." Ceilings are now a standard and skimpy eight feet, and it is a rare apartment that has a working fireplace. Complains Decorator Elizabeth Draper: "The rooms are so neutral: they have no moldings or cornices, no 'eyebrows,' no character." Echoes Designer T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings: "Apart from their shabbiness, the interior spaces are so ignoble. The ceilings are too low-the areas are just not worthy!" The grand old apartments are still perhaps the city...
...second purpose. Accompanying Lübke was Bonn's Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroder. While the two Presidents went off to the opera and the Spanish Riding School, Schroder and Austrian Foreign Minister Bruno Kriesky were hard at it across the diplomatic table. Topic of their talks: neutral Austria's announced desire to join the European Common Market in some vague manner...
Under terms of the 1955 peace treaty with Russia and the Western powers which gave it independence, Austria cannot stray far from the neutral path. But down deep, the Austrians hanker for closer Western ties. As Chancellor Gorbach pointed out on a London trip a fortnight ago: "Our neutrality is simply a question of our having undertaken not to join any military alliance and not to allow foreign troops on Austrian territory. It goes without saying that we feel ourselves to be a part of the Western world." As such, the Austrians are eager to have "an economic connection" with...
...West Germans feel a "thousand years of common culture" with Austria, as Lübke put it last week. There is another subtle German motive. So long as little Austria exists as an example of neutralism, there will be those in every country who propose the same neutral solution for West Germany as a way to win reunification-or at least peace-from the Russians...
...long-awaited 58-megaton shot simply because it took place simultaneously with an earthquake in California. Recent underground tests in Nevada confirmed that earthquake confusion is possible unless seismographs are within a few hundred miles of the site. Hence the Krishna Menon plan presented at Geneva urging monitors in neutral nations near Russia would change nothing. To be above suspicion, any nuclear power must be ready to permit seismographs, accompanied by teams of trained foreign inspectors, on its soil...