Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proposal of a heads-of-states meeting under the auspices of the U.N. was a Western proposal, in answer to Khrushchev's wild offer of a Big-Five summit meeting in Geneva, was carefully worked out by the President, Secretary of State Dulles and Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan; 2) the deployment of U.S. forces to Lebanon to protect a small government against threats of subversion was being accepted in the Middle East as the most significant display of Western strength and determination since Korea; 3) U.S. policies over the last fortnight, far from alienating world opinion...
...United Nations, upset U.S. efforts to ease the Lebanon crisis by getting U.N. forces to replace U.S. troops. To say no would be to invite-unnecessarily-the duckings of the neutralist world and-more important-to strain the home-front political position of that valuable ally, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, already under considerable to-the-summit pressure from Laborites. In talks with Dulles, Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd made it clear that the Macmillan government could not afford the political penalties of rebuffing Khrushchev's ploy, and Macmillan himself drove that point home with...
...nation's three television networks have good reason to sweat this summer. Never before have program sales for the fall and winter season fallen so far behind schedule. At the end of last week the three networks moodily reported that a total of 16¼ hours of their prime evening time-the equivalent of five full evenings' programing for one network-was still up for sale. Value: some $65 million...
Died. Tengku Sir Badlishah, 64, Sultan of Malaya's Kedah state, who once zipped around the peninsula in a canary-colored Rolls-Royce, was elder brother of Malaya's Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, son-in-law of Tuanku Abdul Rahman, Malaya's Paramount Ruler; of a heart attack which came while he was playing tennis; in Alor Star, Malaya...
...always, Brigitte plays a pouty fleshpot yearning for a man (Henri Vidal) who doesn't yearn back. This unlikely situation is sillier than usual because this time, besides her natural endowments, she has wealth and social position as the daughter of the "Prime Minister" of France. But Vidal, dad's Chief of Foreign Affairs, throws gravel in her face as he takes off in his car to meet his latest mistress...