Word: premiered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mike Mansfield (D-Mont.) voiced fear Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev might "do something on the spur of the moment" that would ignite a conflict...
...diplomat who can claim to have bested the U.S.S.R.'s Premier Nikita Khrushchev in a face-to-face cold-war skirmish is Careerman James W. Riddleberger. Time: May 1955. Place: Belgrade, at a Yugoslav dinner party in honor of visiting Premier Khrushchev. Busy at his favorite party game of U.S. baiting, Khrushchev attacked the U.S.'s "positions of strength" policy. Retorted U.S. Ambassador Riddleberger: "I had some personal experience with Soviet efforts to act from a position of strength. I was in Berlin during the blockade." Khrushchev switched to deploring the sad plight of the workers...
...Muscovite version of Anastas Mikoyan's recent visit to the U.S. From the airport Radio Moscow carried his initial words ("serious talks . . . better understanding") to a nationwide audience. As his Moscow residence. Macmillan was assigned a gingerbread Victorian mansion once occupied by Russia's ex-Premier Georgy Malenkov (who now presumably sleeps near a power station in remote Kazakhstan). Ahead of Macmillan lay the Inevitable ballet performances. Kremlin receptions, the tours of collective farms, visits to Kiev and Leningrad...
Turkey's 59-year-old Premier Adnan Menderes was flying into London from Istanbul with a planeload of Turkish officials, Members of Parliament and newsmen for final talks on a Cyprus settlement. His secretary had pulled him through a hole in the wreckage. Margaret Bailey, a former nurse, drove them through the woods to her 14th century farm cottage, wrapped them in hot blankets, served them tea and some of her precious 1868 brandy...
Suffering from shock and bruised ribs, the Premier was moved from Mrs. Bailey's cottage to a private room on the third floor of London Clinic. It was there that Adnan Menderes, in pajamas and dressing gown, received British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Greek Premier Constantine Karamanlis three days after the crash. Somebody brought them one of the hospital's fountain pens. And in that most undiplomatic of settings, the three men signed the agreement that ended the four-year dispute over Cyprus and brought the island the promise of independence for the first time since...