Word: state
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Five Strikes & a Spare. Eisenhower and Khrushchev flew from Washington to Camp David together in a helicopter, accompanied only by their interpreters and secret-service details. Their principal aides-Secretary of State Christian Herter and Ambassador to the U.N. Henry Cabot Lodge; Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and U.S.S.R. Ambassador Mikhail Menshikov-also helicoptered together. First evening the two parties sat down to a roast beef dinner, afterwards watched U.S. Navy movies taken on the North Pole trip of the nuclear submarine Nautilus, and also took in a western movie. The sleeping arrangements: Eisenhower, Herter, Khrushchev, Gromyko had adjoining single...
Ready for Failure. Between the visible shows of geniality, the two were joined in the toughest debate between Chiefs of State since the summits of World War II. Eisenhower, who did almost all the talking on the U.S. side, made it clear that the U.S. would negotiate on 1) reducing the size of Western garrisons in Berlin, 2.) cutting down propaganda and espionage activities, 3) setting up an all-German commission to work on long-range plans for German reunification. Khrushchev, who did all the talking on the U.S.S.R. side, said only that he would consider some form...
Khrushchev happily drove on. At Ames, where he toured the Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts, he was at his bubbling best. More and more, as tensions slacked, he made Brahmin-born Cabot Lodge his straight man. Said he in a hog barn: "In all his life, Mr. Lodge probably hasn't taken in as many smells as today." When it came time for the predictable message, Khrushchev was, as always, prepared: "These Soviet and American pigs can coexist-why then can't our nations coexist as well? . . . If I may say something in a joking...
...application of the SPT to 150 delinquent boys in upper income groups ($7,500 and thereabouts) by the Jewish Board of Guardians is still in process. Thus far, the table has been applied to 81 boys and reports state that it would accurately have identified 89 per cent of these...
...table was applied to a group of 100 Jewish boys confined in the Hawthorne-Cedar Knolls School in New York State, with the purpose of determining the extent to which it would have been possible, years earlier, to have identified them accurately as potentially serious delinquents. Black and Mis Glick ascertained that 91 per cent of the group would have been correctly spotted by the test...