Word: standoff
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...Standoff. The meeting had been expected to produce a definitive declaration on the Eisenhower Doctrine by what the kept Cairo press likes to call the "free Arabs"-as opposed to the "kept Arabs" like the Iraqis, who belong to Western pacts. It did not. Nasser refused to accept the Eisenhower Doctrine on the plea that it had not yet been fully explained. Saud refused to condemn it. Result: no mention of the doctrine at all, except an oblique insistence that "the defense of the Arab world should emanate from the Arab nation...
...musket teaches that the ICBM will probably not be the "ultimate" weapon in the sense that no defense can ever be developed against it. But there will doubtless be a period of years, perhaps decades, when the ICBM stands as the supreme, unstoppable weapon. Should the missile standoff burst upon a world unprepared to think about the new meanings, the ICBM could cause explosive political tensions that might even trigger the missile itself. What is important, then, is for the U.S. to approach the age of the ICBM with some hard thinking about its meaning...
Concessions. But Perón got back his grip only at the cost of at least one implicit concession. His knockdown battle with the church became a wary standoff, not even mentioned in his speech. Said Hugo di Pietro, Peronista labor boss: "This is a time for reconciliation. There will be no church issue." Though most priests still wore cautious mufti in the streets (Argentines vied in trying to spot them by their black socks and clumsily knotted neckties), some ventured boldly out in cassocks. Most of the arrested priests were hastily freed. The government sent policemen to guard churches...
President Eisenhower is convinced that "there is no longer any alternative to peace." The British believe that the world is entering a period of pax atomica, based on a recognition by both sides of a nuclear standoff. The new phrase spreading in both London and Washington is "competitive coexistence...
...bougainvillaea-spangled Petropolis, Brazil's traditional summer capital (see above), Latin American delegates to the inter-American economic conference last week opened their campaign for a massive new program of help from the U.S. (TIME, Nov. 22). The response was a blend of sweet reasonableness and polite standoff from U.S. Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey. The Latinos wanted price floors for the raw materials they supply the U.S.; Humphrey countered that "We as governments should reduce . . . our own intervention in the fields of commerce and industry." The Latinos wanted outside financing totaling $1 billion a year; Humphrey suggested...