Word: offs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"Mr. Gromyko," said Herter himself early in the week, "appears to mistake the moves we have made to meet him halfway as signs of weakness." And so Gromyko did. In the eighth week of "negotiations" at Geneva, with the mechanical insistence of a recorded time signal, he reiterated demands that...
By now the smoothies in every delegation who brief the gathered press at Geneva were finding it harder and harder to pretend that the allies all felt as one. The French were disgusted. The Americans were inclined to break off. The British used failure of the talks (as once they...
The reason soon became clear. One of the few Marxist heresies that Gomulka has not stamped out in his campaign to restore Communist authority in Poland is official tolerance of private farms. So stubbornly resistant are Polish peasants to collectivization that even now, after three years of Gomulka, cooperative farms...
Having done their homework well, and being of one mind, economic ministers of the Outer Seven needed only two days last week at the Swedish resort of Saltsjoebaden to agree on the essentials of their European Free Trade Association (TIME, July 27). Member nations hope to have the final draft...
Pampered Pachyderm. Hannibal had to fend off hostile rock throwers; Hoyte and Jumbo had only to ward off playful children, eager crowds, civic receptions, and toasts in vin d'honneur. Jumbo seemed to enjoy the march, placidly munching apples, dancing and playing the mouth organ for fascinated audiences, while...