Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dulles moved on from there to settle the intolerable situation in Korea, in which the Kaesong-Panmunjom truce talks had dragged on for 18 months while U.S. and U.N. forces suffered thousands of casualties a week. He informed Red China, through India's neutralist Prime Minister Nehru, that it would have to conclude the Panmunjom talks or risk an all-out U.S. drive to win the war. Red China signed. Dulles was improvising, experimenting, learning as he went along. His next move: Indo-China. First, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Radford recommended U.S. naval air strikes...
Flying into London last week for a 36-hour visit with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, French Premier Michel Debré had one clear purpose: to take a peek up Britain's sleeve and see what, if any, further undeclared cards the "flexible" British were planning to slip onto the table in the forthcoming East-West negotiations. In the process, Debré gave the rest of the Western alliance its first good look...
...London he proved more soft-spoken and diplomatic than the British had expected. In his university days he had been a passionate student of British history. Gazing last week at the portraits of every British Prime Minister since Sir Robert Walpole, which decorate the staircase of 10 Downing Street, Debré mused aloud: "Just imagine how long a staircase it would take in the Hôtel de Matignon to hang a portrait of every Prime Minister France has had in the same period...
...after a year of college work; by that additional period of study, the applicants could prove whether or not they were "diamonds in the rough." More important, the benefits of Harvard education would be opened, at least potentially, to students with a wider range of backgrounds--one of the prime aims of Harvard admissions policy...
AMERICA has had more than its share of unhappy artists. But Louis Eilshemius stands out as a prime example of genius blighted by the world's indifference. In 1941, the New York Herald Tribune headlined: EILSHEMIUS, 77, DIES IN BELLEVUE, PENNILESS, BITTER. AND FAMOUS. The fame that came too late has been growing sporadically since. In Manhattan last week the Artists' Gallery hung the biggest survey of Eilshemius' art to date...