Word: premiered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Khrushchev drank to Nixon's toast. At that point a Russian waiter raised a glass and proposed "one hundred years to Premier Khrushchev...
...block wedge of Moscow real estate where Vice President Nixon and Soviet 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...
...successful emigrant had freighted his American car (a mid-50s model) back to Lebanon to impress his home villagers. He had a rude awakening. "They've all got 1959 models!" he complained. Premier Rashid Karami, Maronite Patriarch Paul Meouchi (once of Los Angeles), and even usually aloof President Fuad Chehab posed smilingly for pictures with the visitors. Most of the expatriates seemed glad to see the old country, but would they like to stay? "Of course I'm going back," snapped one conventioner. "I just came here to dream...
...week long, as Baghdad celebrated the Iraq Republic's first anniversary, taut, tireless Premier Karim Kassem was man of the hour 24 hours a day, taking salutes at parades, laying cornerstones, playing host at enormous public receptions, receiving scores of delegations. Friday evening he orated steadily from 10 o'clock to 5 a.m. Finally on Sunday afternoon, ashen-faced with fatigue but crisp and erect as ever, Moslem Kassem strode into Baghdad's Roman Catholic Church of St. Joseph...
Kassem's Collaborators. As Iraq's militant Communists slipped from Kassem's favor three solid citizens took their places as the Premier's closest collaborators...