Word: notes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Summrrsmanship. At week's end it was uncertain when the modified summit meeting would be held, or where, or what nations would participate, or even whether any such meeting would take place at all. It all depended pretty much on Khrushchev's next note. Washington thought the U.S. could be ready before mid-August, and regular members of the Security Council were expected to discuss the procedural possibilities this week. One possibility: the heads of state and the permanent representatives-among them the delegate of Free China in the absence of Chiang Kai-shek (who made no sound...
Just Tired. Nasser's own Cairo speech marched toward its end on a more muted note. He welcomed Khrushchev's proposal for a summit meeting on the Middle East-even though in the first Russian proposal for five-power talks there was no mention of inviting any Arab country. Said Nasser: "At the same time that we maintain mobilization and carry arms, we also call for peace . . . We are tired of the cold war, we are tired of military groupings, we are tired of the division of the world into two camps . . . Indeed, we are tired...
...this note, his speech trailed off. and almost as quickly as he had appeared, Gamal Abdel Nasser disappeared to a waiting black limousine...
...allstar" jazz group headed by Trumpeter Rolf Ericsen. The Swedes loved her and mobbed her concerts. When she got back to the U.S., choice dates were still hard to come by, but West Coast jazz critics, notably the San Francisco Chronicle's Ralph Gleason, started to take note of the best new voice in the business...
Lest any scholars chuck their books into the bay, the paper noted that laborers were required to be able to lift 140 lbs., and that so many applicants wanted laborers' jobs that the city has no plans to hold any more examinations for two years. For weak-backed or stubbornly intellectual students, there was one note of cheer: if they studied long enough to become a psychiatric social service worker, they could eventually earn more ($525 a month) than the city's laborers, although they would have to start lower...