Word: offs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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IT was quite a week for Charlie Mohr, TIME'S White House correspondent. He had to rush away from a reception at the home of the Vice President of the U.S. one evening so that he would not be late for dinner with the President. Two days later he...
Shortly before noon, Nixon and Khrushchev turned up at the U.S. exhibition in Sokolniki Park, posed for pictures with the gold-colored dome of the central building gleaming in the background, then set off on a tour of the exhibits. They paused to test new TV equipment that enabled them...
Nixon made a point of telling Khrushchev that the house was well within the means of U.S. working-class families. The house cost $14,000, Nixon said, and could be paid off over the course of 25 or 30 years. "You know we are having a steel strike," said he...
Richest Opportunity. At the formal opening of the exhibition that evening. Khrushchev conceded in his speech to some 4,000 official guests that he had felt "a certain envy" in looking at the displays. But, he went on, the U.S.S.R. would "surpass the U.S., not only in total volume of...
For the sake of the record, however, I'd like to say that the central character seemed to me to be fundamentally misconceived: Alvin Cohen's Giovanni was not the retired demagogue with the brains and scruples of a philosopher that the play presents, but a diminutive figure of ineffectual...