Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Into the Cabinet. President-elect Eisenhower, bent on upgrading the U.N. in U.S. foreign policy and strengthening the U.S. voice in the U.N., looked around for an international-minded Republican who could do what a U.S. chief delegate to the U.N. has to do: think fast, speak fluently, argue persuasively, and be charming. Cabot Lodge seemed just the man. To (give Lodge extra prestige and a voice in the policymaking, Ike made him a "personal member" of his Cabinet (Lodge's predecessor, Vermont's ex-Senator Warren Austin, had no Cabinet status). As a favor to Lodge...
...Council, De Gaulle continued to call for private five-power chats, somewhere in Europe in the "necessary conditions of objectivity and serenity," and never mind about gathering a U.N. crowd-where somebody might want to bring up Algeria. De Gaulle had less success seeking Rome and Bonn support to speak for continental Europe. Italy's new Premier, Amintore Fanfani, a U.S. visitor last week, was selling an old Italian idea that in one form or another had some chance of adoption: a Western-sponsored Middle East development plan, operated through...
Fifth and last in the Summer School's Afternoon Lecture Series will take place this afternoon in Burr Hall B at 3 p.m. Albert H. Halsey will speak on "English Higher Education." Admission is free to Summer School students...
Even as a schoolboy, Anthony is an odd one: an American with a background of wealth and parental indifference attending a Parisian lycee. At 15, eating ice cream and plum cake in a tearoom near the Madeleine, Anthony finds the courage to speak worshipfully to Christiane Mondor, a 22-year-old, swan-necked beauty who is moving through her first season of heady triumphs on the stage...
...these stories are good and no one of them is first rate, yet they are pathetically moving because their authors can be felt, and almost seen, each in the tricky situation of one who must tell a necessary truth and may forever lose his right to speak if he tells...