Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Officially speaking, he had come to the U.S. avowing that he hoped to relax tensions-and, in a way that was probably not on his agenda, he had. In three days of secret talks with President Eisenhower at Camp David, Maryland (see The Presidency), he had given what the U.S. took to be a commitment to lift the ultimatum on West Berlin that he had invoked last November...
Five Strikes & a Spare. Eisenhower and Khrushchev flew from Washington to Camp David together in a helicopter, accompanied only by their interpreters and secret-service details. Their principal aides-Secretary of State Christian Herter and Ambassador to the U.N. Henry Cabot Lodge; Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and U.S.S.R. Ambassador Mikhail Menshikov-also helicoptered together. First evening the two parties sat down to a roast beef dinner, afterwards watched U.S. Navy movies taken on the North Pole trip of the nuclear submarine Nautilus, and also took in a western movie. The sleeping arrangements: Eisenhower, Herter, Khrushchev, Gromyko had adjoining single...
...Soviet Premier and the two-time Democratic presidential candidate chatted amiably through lunch. Inevitably, their conversation turned from cold war to hot politics. Afterward, recounting it to the press and TV, Khrushchev turned to Stevenson. "Can I repeat that little conversation?" he asked. "It won't reveal any secret?" Replied Adlai, with a big grin: "You are at liberty to reveal my deepest secret." Said Khrushchev: "Mr. Stevenson said that he was a politician in retirement. But in politics it often happens that a person retires today and tomorrow he may be in the first rank. It all depends...
...known to have tremendous thrust. But during the past several months, it has developed vetoes in its fuel system and various other bugs that have come to be known generically as proxmires. It has the best-oiled mechanism of any in DAMP. The Texas Titan is still on the secret list insofar as plans for firing are concerned. The decision will be made upon the basis of weather forecasts at the time-that is, which way the wind is blowing...
...extremists were largely responsible for the riots, Banda airily dismissed them as "one of those little outbreaks." It was a far less serious little outbreak that finally brought him down. His assassin turned out to be a 43-year-old monk who practices the traditional Ayurvedic (native) medicine-a secret method of treatment with herbs and massage. According to Colombo police, the monk bore a personal grudge against Banda, presumably because of his refusal to rid Ceylon of its modern doctors...