Word: smile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more summit conference. But last week it hardly knew what to do when the spirit of coexistence sneaked in via the back door in the person of Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, 63, top Kremlin agent in Budapest during the rape of Hungary, who has a normal smile and what one newsman called "blunt words, crackling wit and unfailing good humor...
...Sixteenth Street, the sidewalk was jammed with photographers and newsmen, and it was Mikoyan's turn to answer questions. When was he going to see Secretary of State John Foster Dulles? "Tomorrow." Who else was he going to see in the U.S.? Replied Mikoyan with a smile: "You'll find out in time...
Batista's end came on New Year's Eve. As he and his fellow crooks rode in a line of black Cadillacs to the army's Camp Columbia, outside Havana, for the usual New Year's Eve dinner, they did not smile. They knew that the jig, as well as the year, was up. "For the salvation of the republic," announced General Eulogio Cantillo at the end of a gloomy meal, "the military forces have decided that it is necessary for General Batista to withdraw from power...
...course seemed to involve an ignominious surrender to Halleck, who has been bucking uppishly for Martin's job for the last two terms. This would have avoided Tuesday's outbreak of intra-party bitterness, which will be remembered if only by the pathos of Joe Martin's defeated smile...
During Christmas week. Pope John XXIII kept up his no-nonsense disrespect for hoary papal traditions, left the Vatican to beam his gentle pastoral smile on those who perhaps needed it most-invalid children in a Rome hospital, convicts at the grim Regina Coeli prison, where one inmate asked his help in getting an amnesty from the government. "I'm afraid that's out of my competency," replied the Pope. "I don't know what influence I might have in getting the government to grant an amnesty." Then he added: "But I have some influence...