Word: russian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gore's 15-minute White House appointment stretched into 45 minutes as President Eisenhower shot questions at the Tennessean. The President bridled once when Albert Gore, carried away, said passionately: "I want my President to call [the Russian] bluff." But for the most part Dwight Eisenhower seemed impressed, asked Gore to submit his proposals in a formal memorandum. Gore did, also talked over his ideas with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and new AEC Chairman John McCone. Under close examination, flaws might appear in Albert Gore's plan, but at least it had the merit of suggesting...
...West German Bundestag (Lower House) in Bonn, president of the West Berlin house of representatives (city parliament), and last year West Berlin's mayor. In 1956, after other leaders had failed, Brandt dissuaded an angry mob of 75,000 from marching into the Soviet sector to protest the Russian intervention in Hungary...
...France stoutly stood their ground, the British began to make noises as if it did not matter much what compromises were made so long as the West stayed in West Berlin. The London Economist thought it odd that the West should be willing to talk about Germany with Russian Communists but not with German...
Communists, and even odder that the West should insist on the Russian right to stay in Berlin. But in pressing for the kind of recognition-whether de facto or formal-that would only cement the division of Germany, the Russians are obviously seeking the status quo that Khrushchev told Walter Lippmann is the goal of Soviet diplomacy...
...last year the combination of Russian machinery and Chinese toil had boosted China's steel production from a prewar peak of 1,800,000 tons to 5,350,000 tons, raised coal production from the Nationalist record of 62 million tons to 130 million tons. And this, according to Peking, is only prelude. Hailing 1958 as the year of "the great leap forward," the Chinese Reds took as their primary slogan: "Overtake Britain in production in 15 years." and after revising production targets ever upward, claimed that by the end of this year China would have produced 10.7 million...