Word: respectful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Swedish match trust, handled legal work on the $125 million J. P. Morgan & Co. loan to defeated Germany to help pay reparations. At 38 he became Sullivan & Cromwell's directing partner. It was then, according to one friend, that "young Foster adopted that dour expression, partly out of respect for the old fossils of 50 or 60 with whom he had to deal and partly to mask his own precocious youth...
Minimum price the West was prepared to accept for going on to the summit was at least provisional Russian agreement to respect the present status of West Berlin. There were signs that the Russians might be willing. Fortnight ago Gromyko, in private conversation with Herter, came close to disavowing the May 27 deadline for Western evacuation of Berlin set by Khrushchev last November. And from Moscow last week came a pointed announcement that Nikita himself planned to be away in Albania on deadline...
...November 1957 agreement between the government and the rebel Pathet Lao, who then controlled two of the nation's northern provinces under the leadership of Prince Souphanouvong, pro-Red cousin of the King of Laos. "I signed the agreement," said the prince. "I guarantee it will be respected. If the Pathet Lao battalions don't respect the agreement, I no longer consider them friends." To the Laotian government and the army, integration meant that the Communist troops would be parceled out in small numbers among the other troops; to the Red commanders, it meant that their battalions would...
Among the good friends of the Philippines' late President Ramon Magsaysay was Jesus Vargas, a burly, outspoken career officer who rose through the ranks to become the Philippine Republic's first three-star general. Vargas, 54, won his countrymen's respect for his ability, honesty and stubborn determination to keep the Filipino army out of politics. Last week these virtues cost General Vargas his job as Philippine Defense Secretary...
Last week Chancellor Kimpton announced his briskest reforms to date: appointment of Dean Simpson and complete re-establishment of major studies within the college. The full-size curriculum is likely to command respect at last for the sagging college of the wealthy (endowment: $186 million) university; the new dean already has it. Trim, clip-toned, British-born Alan Simpson went to Chicago in 1946 as a newly demobbed Royal Artillery major. He is now a U.S. citizen, married to an associate editor of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists...