Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a warming lunch (thick tenderloin steaks) and acceptance of a medal from Chicago's Mayor Kelly,* the President rode in an open car, its safety glass raised to full height, to Soldier Field. There, as his car edged around the arena, he returned beaming smiles for the cheers. But as he alighted at the north end of the amphitheater, somebody threw a tomato at the President of the U.S. If Harry Truman noticed it as it squashed on the cinder track he gave no sign...
Again the delegates headed for the city-six to a car, save for Mr. Gromyko, who rode alone behind his Russian chauffeur. Suddenly Mr. Gromyko's car stopped, fouling up the motorcade. An interpreter was dispatched to see what ailed him. It was minor: Mr. Gromyko merely wanted to know where he had been...
Next day he tried a change of pace. He rode in a limousine to suburban Kenwood, Md., walked several of its blossom-scented blocks to the home of his Press Secretary Charles Ross, dropped in there for scrambled eggs & bacon...
Andrei Gromyko said yes, he would attend the Security Council session that afternoon. Instead, he rode in a black Cadillac through three miles of New York streets. His change of venue might have been a wise one, for the great question before Gromyko and his Russian colleagues did not lie in the Council room, or in the phrases of the UNO Charter, or in Iran. The streets and fields of the U.S. held the answer they sought. From where the Russians sat, the riddle was: would the U.S., over the next few decades, be able to make its policy felt...
...British already rode the Peró bandwagon (they were never off it). Sir Montague Eddy, boss of Britain's billion-dollar investment in Argentine railways, was reportedly ready to strike a deal permitting expropriation of his railways by Peró. Trade scouts were promising trucks and buses, more textiles, and an aircraft plant for Argentina in three months. More important than the lavish U.S. wartime buying program, Britain still took Argentina's entire meat supply-some of which goes to UNRRA. Last week the British extended their favorable trade treaty with Argentina for a further six months...