Word: opener
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Powerful Personification. Yet within what may be remembered as peacetime diplomacy's most amazing 24 hours, Vice President Nixon became the most talked about, best-known and most-effective (if anyone can be effective) Westerner to invade the U.S.S.R. in years. Officially, he was in Moscow to open the fabulous U.S. National Exhibition in Moscow's Sokolniki Park. But Nixon did much more: he gave sharp point to the glittering achievement of the fair because-on Communism's home grounds-he managed in a unique way to personify a national character proud of peaceful accomplishment, sure...
...Premier Khrushchev held their spectacular verbal fencing matches last week is a wonder of U.S. planning, talent and do-it-yourself ingenuity. Conceived four years ago, the American exhibition in Moscow was not finally approved by the Kremlin until last December, and the fact that it was ready to open on schedule marked some sort of speed record for major international expositions...
...illegal, confided one company agent, "there are other ways of getting information. The waiter serving lunch in the man's suite, the telegrams the bell captain might see, the maid who cleans the room, the switchboard operator. These people are paid to keep their eyes and ears open...
...many construction and real estate companies (more than 100) that he has lost count, manages a huge personal fortune ($40 million)-and still finds time to hustle continuously from continent to continent as envoy extraordinaire of U.S. capitalism. This week Norman Winston hopped off to Moscow to help open the first American National Exhibition in the Soviet Union as a special adviser to Fair Coordinator George V. Allen...
...Germany. This week Manhattanites and visitors to Manhattan got the offer of an even more baroque outlet. From now on, if money, showmanship, and just plain spectacle count for anything. The Four Seasons will be synonymous with the world's costliest restaurant ($4.5 million to build), which swung open its Park Avenue doors this week on the ground floor of the bronzed Seagram Building...