Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...highest form of diplomacy: it told Soviet diplomats about the plan in advance and in secret. In Washington John Foster Dulles called in Soviet Ambassador Mikhail A. Menshikov (whose reaction, said Dulles later, was "not exactly heart-warming"), and in New York Henry Cabot Lodge went up to the Park Avenue residence of Soviet Delegate Arkady A. Sobolev to outline the U.S. offer privately...
...neither a crusader nor a critic, spent three days in Summerton, S.C. convincing the head of the Citizens' Council that he just wanted to get the Council's side of the story. Back in his nine-room Victorian house in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park, Martin took another four months to write his series. He ground no personal ax, pleaded no man's cause, contented himself with a dispassionate report entitled: The Deep South Says "Never...
...Detroit isn't solving our problems-it's creating them," says San Francisco Social Worker Janet Pence, who recently retired her 1951 Hudson in favor of a pale blue Volkswagen. "When it became difficult to park downtown, we were greeted each year with a longer car. When the price of gas and oil went skyhigh, we were asked to buy gas guzzlers. Well, we plan to become a two-car family soon, just as Detroit advises. But we're getting another Volkswagen...
...only denizens of the old park are the pigeons that flit among the rafters and, for the very observant, the ghosts of Billy Southworth, Tommy Holmes, and company--which still haunt the dugout behind first base...
...everywhere Lancaster went, he was impressed by the change in Americans and Americana: André Gide on drugstore newsracks instead of "a couple of Mickey Spillanes," polite cab drivers, even architecture "with a new restrained look . . . the severe but effective cliffs of steel and glass that now dominate Park Avenue." Furthermore, "voices are quieter, manners less rugged...