Word: premiered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cheers were still echoing around the world for the men of the Nautilus and Skate, first submarines to sail beneath the North Pole, when a sudden unwelcoming noise was heard from Denmark. Socialist Premier H. C. Hansen abruptly announced that Skate would not be allowed to make a scheduled call on Copenhagen. His Cabinet, except for the Defense Minister, had agreed that to have the submarine's nuclear reactor in the harbor was too much of a risk to take...
...nuclear physics, had bluntly warned its government that should the Skate have a serious accident in the Copenhagen harbor, dangerous radioactive materials might be released. "If only one-fourth of the radioactivity aboard got out," said one physicist darkly, "all human beings within a mile around would perish." Suddenly Premier Hansen did not stand alone: it turned out that the British had also had qualms about the recent visit of the Nautilus. Sure enough, when asked, Her Majesty's government admitted to having welcomed the Nautilus at Portland (pop. 15,000) precisely because the port was small enough...
...grandiose schemes and ordered a cut in armaments. Unhappy Syrian officers reportedly flung their caps on the table, the traditional gesture of threatening to resign from the army if they do not have their way. More agreeable to Nasser was his three-day meeting with Crown Prince Feisal, Premier of oil-rich Saudi Arabia, who announced that "clouds between the two countries have now been cleared...
...France no paper save the Communist L'Humanité has denounced Premier Charles de Gaulle more outspokenly than Paris' frisky young L'Express. But looking on at the 39 old parliamentarians who were studying De Gaulle's proposed new constitution, L'Express sighed: "To see again these men and their methods, to have looked at them for the last time at work, gives one a desire to scream 'yes' to any new regime, to any constitution, provided it changes things...
Britain's changes were received with satisfaction in Turkey, whose major interest in Cyprus is to make sure that the island never falls into Greek hands. But . in Athens, the gloom was heavy. To Premier Constantine Karamanlis, as to most Greeks. Macmillan's modified plan seemed the beginning of partition. Fearing a renewal of bombings and murder, Cyprus Governor Sir Hugh Foot sent a personal message to Archbishop Makarios in Athens: "If this chance is not at once seized, I can foresee nothing but continuing misery for Cyprus." At week's end Makarios flatly rejected the Macmillan...