Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Handsomely mounted on a white horse, India's Prime Minister Nehru last week cantered up a road in the hill resort of Mussoorie. Looking as fit as a much younger man and wearing a red rose in his buttonhole, 69-year-old Jawaharlal Nehru dismounted at Birla House, a large English-style cottage, and strode across the green lawn in the glittering afternoon sunshine that drenched the surrounding fir trees and the distant snowy peaks of the Himalayas. A line of Tibetan officials bowed to Nehru, presented him with an armload of ceremonial white scarves. The curtains parted...
...officially achieve the rank of head of state until his country withdraws its allegiance next fall to the British Crown (though not the Commonwealth), his hosts in nearby Conakry, the capital of Guinea, decided to give him a 21-gun salute anyway. In a few minutes, a cane-swinging Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana strode down the gangplank of his chartered freighter to embrace, somewhat stiffly, the President of the Republic of Guinea, youthful (37) Sékou Touré. Later, when the two men stood side by side to review the tiny, 2,000-man Guinean army...
...another spectacular aspect of the modern drama unfolding in old-time pirate sea haunts, Cuba's Prime Minister Fidel Castro declared from a plane in flight that the Cubans were...
With 100 cases of good-will rum in his baggage and a permanent grin on his bearded face, Prime Minister Fidel Castro flew into Washington last week and spared neither energy nor charm in putting a good face on his revolution and trying "to understand better the United States." He even kissed a baby in a Washington park. In a town where winning friends rates high on the scale of admired talents, he won a lot of admiration...
Black Tie. Guests at a Cuban embassy reception, including Soviet Ambassador Mikhail Menshikov, ogled a revolution in clothes: Castro, in a sharp green uniform, with comandante's star, white shirt and black tie. "It was orders," explained the Prime Minister, pointing to Cuban Ambassador to the U.S. Ernesto Dihigo. "I don't like...