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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Love Those Kids! Menshikov arrived in the U.S. by Soviet jet transport a month ago. "I have been sent to your country as ambassador of peace," he proclaimed, and as he began to gravitate around official Washington, usually accompanied by his handsome wife, often talking about "my four kids," he seemed bent on making a case for it. Menshikov paid beaming calls upon Eisenhower (twice), Nixon (once), and Dulles (twice). He skirted precedent by calling upon members of the President's personal staff, first off Sherman Adams, explaining with a big smile that "I'm not very strict...
Gamal Abdel Nasser declared open war on King Saud last week-the man whom he has often wooed in the past, whose oil moneys have helped fuel Nasser's subversions, whose army only two years ago was nominally put under a joint command headed by an Egyptian...
...carry it." He even managed to put some more questions. But when Churchill heard one asking him to explain his charge that Americans have "deteriorated in character," he returned to the attack: "Everybody wants to do the same thing, and they're frightened and bulldozed, even bullied, often by people like yourself. I mean I'm not frightened of you. Why the hell should I be? I mean I'm leaving the country tomorrow and I can get along very well without...
...idea the music seemed to lack. CJ Peter Mennin's Piano Concerto, performed in Manhattan by the Cleveland Orchestra, which commissioned the work, along with eight others, to celebrate its 40th anniversary. The work by 34-year-old Juilliard Teacher Mennin was driving, gusty, brilliantly animated, but it often seemed more like an exercise in pure virtuosity than a statement of musical intent...
...sack." Under regulations barring money and jewels, she could not even keep her religious medal. "Pay for eight days," said the cashier. "If she doesn't last that long, you'll get the extra money back." On return visits, Micheline Vernhes had to wait outside the gates, often in the rain; Peggy sobbed hysterically each time her mother had to leave her alone after the brief visiting hours. After eight days, Micheline Vernhes could stand it no longer, took Peggy home...