Word: premiered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...impossible that a U.S. ship would be hit, since one obvious Chicom aim was to provoke the U.S. into aggressive-looking acts. (The Reds even sent out false directional signals in hopes of luring American planes over the mainland, where, shot down, they would look like attackers.) Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev, rattling the Moscow end of the Communist axis, threatened in another propaganda letter to Eisenhower that U.S. ships "can serve as targets for the right types of rockets." (The President patiently wrote back a request that Khrushchev talk sense, not waste time on "upsidedown presentation," and help cool down...
Chopping away with the matched set of woods and irons given to him last year by Fellow Golfer Ike Eisenhower, Japan's Premier Nobusuke Kishi finished well out of the yen in a Foreign Office-Foreign Diplomatic Corps tournament. With an old amateur's studied, off-day melancholy, Kishi brooded: "I just could not get going." With pro shop objectivity, the manager of the Sengokuhara Golf Course said: "Kishi seemed to be in his usual form...
...caricature cruel? Many a reader of Paris' left-wing daily Combat (circ. 58,000) complains that Staff Cartoonist Jean Pinatel's banana-nosed version of Premier Charles de Gaulle is a clear case of proboscis profaned. Last week Pinatel snapped back at his critics. Beside an amiable, big-nosed De Gaulle, Pinatel drew an evil-eyed, small-nosed De Gaulle, then offered his defense...
...Russians had another reason to welcome Eaton: as a self-starting elder (74) statesman on a personal campaign for "world peace," Eaton had been corresponding with Premier Khrushchev, had been recently praised by Khrushchev for his efforts to soften U.S. policy toward Russia. The Reds were plainly grateful for such help-especially from such a prize specimen of capitalist. At an agricultural fair, Eaton was presented with a gold medal for his "great contribution to Russian agriculture." Later he was escorted to the Kremlin for a 1½-hour talk with Khrushchev, whom Eaton found a "clean-desk...
...have heard," Eaton told the Premier, "the Soviet impression that American industry is in favor of war so that war orders will continue to flow. Speaking solely as a capitalist, we industrialists are not at all happy about spending $40 billion a year for implements of war that, if they had to be used, would mean the destruction of all our property, and our annihilation at the same time. Don't forget that this arms race places a crushing burden of taxation on industry." Khrushchev understood, "because of the expense to us of our own defense effort," but said...