Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...able Secretary James Douglas, but the President might well want to reach outside the Pentagon to fill the top job. Top prospects: AEC Chairman John McCone, onetime Air Force Under Secretary; Presidential Assistant (for National Security) Gordon Gray, onetime Army Secretary; retired General Alfred Gruenther, Eisenhower's SHAPE Chief of Staff, who might be loath to give up the prestige, house, $30,000 salary and perquisites that go with his job of president of the American Red Cross; Ambassador to the U.N. Henry Cabot Lodge, who would be difficult to replace...
...countless study papers, countless conferences-proved neither unyielding nor narrow. They took account of what was legitimate in Russia's past positions on Europe; they moved away from the position, no longer tenable after 14 years of peace, that the conquerors could still impose on Germany the shape of its future government. They gave the U.S.S.R. the chance to prove what it professed to desire. In their careful phrasing and attention to detail, the Western proposals showed a willingness to negotiate, not merely an eagerness to propagandize. Those whose trade it is to analyze documents could see in this...
...army of correspondents and technicians from 56 nations that swarmed through Geneva last week. But the Russians cared not a bit. Long on record as thinking the Big Four foreign ministers' conference a time-wasting prelude to the summit, the Russian government was out to shape the news, not report it. And Soviet press pitchmanship was an outstanding feature of the first conference week...
...deputy's death would have no effect on his own departure, qualified the statement to indicate that he might stay on. Washington, meanwhile, buzzed about successors for either job. Mentioned: U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, Defense Department Comptroller Wilfred McNeil, AEC Chairman John McCone, Dwight Eisenhower's SHAPE Chief of Staff, General Alfred M. Gruenther, president of the American Red Cross...
...with such sweeping considerations, but with a finicky attention to details, did the foreign ministers assemble in Geneva. They disputed about what shape the conference table should be. Russia wanted a round one; the West held out for a square table, whose four-sidedness, reasoned Western tacticians, would emphasize that the talks concerned the four occupiers of Berlin. The Westerners had anticipated a Soviet demand for inclusion of Polish and Czechoslovak delegations, to "even up sides...