Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nowhere during his twelve-day global tour did Vice President Nixon see a more impressive gathering assembled to greet him than at journey's end last week. On hand, as Nixon's Air Force Constellation touched down at Washington's MATS Terminal after 27,477 miles, were State's Secretary John Foster Dulles and Under Secretary Herbert Hoover Jr., some 20 G.O.P. Senators and Representatives marshaled by Senate Minority Leader Bill Knowland. Republican National Chairman Len Hall, and diplomats from the six nations Nixon had visited on his voyage around the world. Travel-weary but smiling...
...Formosa Nixon assured Chiang Kai-shek that the U.S. in its Geneva discussions is mapping no end-around play on Far East allies whose anti-Communist front has been molded at U.S. insistence. From there he flew on for stops in Pakistan and Turkey...
...Vice President moved around the world, Moscow took note of his effective salesmanship, and denounced it as "propaganda." What Moscow did not say was that the Kremlin has been eager to have Nixon visit Russia, has already sounded out the possibilities. The probable answer...
...Vice President Nixon flew to Manila last week for the tenth anniversary of Philippine independence (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) bearing a document that bolstered Filipino national pride more than all the speeches, parades and fireworks of the young nation's U.S. style Fourth of July. The document: a U.S. agreement to "transfer and turn over to the Philippines" full and unqualified title to ownership of "all land areas used either in the past or presently as military bases" by the U.S. in the Philippines...
This fourth version of the dependable plot has no surprises. Deborah Kerr, who gets some dubbed-in help on the vocals from Marni Nixon, is both starchy and strong-minded as the British widow brought to Bangkok in the 1860s to teach English and the scientific method to the king's innumerable children. Yul Brynner, in a bare skull and bare feet, plays the Oriental potentate with the same mannered ferocity that he displayed on Broadway during the 1,246 performances of the play's run. About all that Hollywood has added are the production values of CinemaScope...