Word: premiered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meeting between President Lyndon Baines Johnson and Premier Aleksei Nikolayevich Kosygin had also been long in coming. Yet once started, the summiteers seemed as loath to end their dialogue as they had been to initiate it. For five hours and 20 minutes, at least two hours longer than expected, Johnson and Kosygin conferred on a wide spectrum of world issues that the superpowers alone can hope to resolve, interrupting private sessions monitored only by interpreters with a working luncheon attended by their top advisers. When they parted, it was not goodbye but au revoir; they surprised the world anew...
...Glassboro State College. The residence of College President Thomas ("Dr. Tom") Robinson, the house is as fetchingly old-fashioned inside as out, decorated with 19th century English prints and figured wallpaper. In the small, green-walled library set aside for the leaders' private conversation, the President and the Premier sat down beneath such titles as Those Who Love and The Dignity of Man. At least one international misunderstanding was quickly cleared up. When Kosygin remarked that it was a charming farmhouse, Johnson admitted that even Amerikanski farmers do not often occupy 22-room mansions...
...Communists intended it to be a propaganda spectacular. Once confronted with the inevitability of the session, the U.S. did use the occasion for extensive diplomatic lobbying by Secretary Rusk. He saw many of the foreign officials privately, and even conferred secretly one night with United Arab Republic Deputy Premier Mahmoud Fawzy...
...election campaign does not officially begin until July 19, but for all practical purposes it swung into full speed last week. Premier Nguyen Cao Ky, who announced his candidacy in May, hurried around the country, recruiting support from top generals, impressing the populace with displays of calculated generosity, and keeping his name in the headlines by demanding that 140,000 more U.S. troops should be sent to South Viet Nam. At the same time, his most serious rival, Lieut. General Nguyen Van Thieu, who is Chief of State, formally declared that he is a candidate and began campaigning...
Super President. For anyone with strong nerves and a desire for power, the presidency is quite a prize. Under the new constitution, the President has all the prerogatives of the U.S. Chief Executive, and then some. He hires and fires the Premier and the entire Cabinet, serves as Commander in Chief of the armed forces, sets both domestic and foreign policy, oversees the budget, has patronage aplenty, and in time of emergency rules by decree. The job would be a significant step up for Ky, whose present powers as Premier are substantial but ill-defined, or for Thieu, whose Chief...