Word: set
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...genuinely solving cold-war issues. Harold Macmillan, fresh from Moscow's storm and sunshine, argued that Nikita Khrushchev was really the only Communist worth talking to; Macmillan was willing to go through the motions of a foreign ministers' conference, but he wanted to get right down to setting a summit date. At Camp David, President Eisenhower and Prime Minister Macmillan agreed 1) on a foreign ministers' conference to begin on or about May 11 (TIME, March 16), and 2) to go to the summit late this summer. Addendum: the West will accept Polish and Czechoslovakian representatives...
...questions were even more urgent than Captain Gralla knew when Norton Sound set off on Project Argus: two 100-mile-high atomic explosions carried out by the U.S. in August at Johnston Island in the mid-Pacific caused heavy interference with radio and radar over a distance of 700 miles...
...primary election within 60-90 days. General elections must be held no later than 40 days after the primaries. Hawaii will then be officially proclaimed a state. Depending on how soon Governor Quinn acts. Hawaii could just get its star pinned to the flag next July 4-the date set for Alaska's big moment...
Statue to Harding. At first, while he trained his little guerrilla army, Grivas had to set detonation charges himself. Much of the time he hid in a tiny cave dug into the side of a hill, its mouth plugged with foliage and earth, a slender tube run inside for breathing...
...evidence that there had ever been a black plot to massacre the whites-the major excuse in the first place for the wave of repression that had so far killed 50 Nyasa blacks but no whites. Neither had anybody proved that the blacks of Northern Rhodesia were about to set up a "Murder Inc.," as Governor Sir Arthur Benson alleged. Lord Perth. Minister of State for Colonial Affairs, arriving from London on a visit, announced that he had no doubt whatsoever that such a plot existed. But when asked whether he had seen the evidence, Lord Perth haughtily shifted position...