Word: successful
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Scholarly Vladimir Koretsky, Soviet professor of international law, was worried about Western notions of free speech and other rights of man last week. In a quiet corner at Lake Success, where a U.N. committee is trying to draft an International Bill of Rights, Koretsky scented a tendency to put the individual ahead of the state...
...from Lake Success, another Soviet-trained theoretician-Bulgaria's heavy-lidded Communist Boss Georgi Dimitrov -explained how this doctrine worked in applied Bulgarian politics. Said Dimitrov (in a busy week in which his government ousted 23 more opposition deputies): "We will have peace and tranquillity for creative labor. Whoever stands in our way . . . will go behind bars...
...just 52 weeks since Bernard Baruch had first presented the U.S. atomic control plan, and time was still ticking away with no agreement in sight. But Lake Success was expectant: the Russians were finally going to spell out the kind of international atomic control they would accept. Andrei Gromyko turned up that morning in what looked like a brand-new tropical suit. Actually, Gromyko's grey suit was five years old. The new Russian control plan was also cut from old cloth...
...working delegate on the Atomic Energy Commission, gentle, saturnine Frederick H. Osborn, wasted no time on doubtful optimism. The 58-year-old geneticist and wartime major general (morale branch), who makes Britons at Lake Success think of Lord Halifax, was already on the record with an uncompromising verdict against the kind of control Gromyko proposed: "A fraud on the people of the world...
...party was a huge success from the U.S. point of view. As Tish said: "It was one of the most wonderful experiences I've ever had, just one of those typical English things we can't reproduce in America...