Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the President. Two days later he flew from New York to Moscow in the Boeing jetliner that set a new speed record. There he dogged the steps of Richard Nixon, was so close at hand so much of the time that at one point in the historic "kitchen summit" at the U.S. exhibition, Nikita Khrushchev swung around, mistook Charlie for an official member of the party, and heartily pumped his hand in fine Nixon-Kefauver fashion. After filing his reports for the cover story in NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Correspondent Mohr cabled somewhat apologetically: "I have had only six hours...
Justified Summit. On all sides then, homework seemed unnecessary, grand new schemes seemed futile, and the only purpose (in Russian and British eyes) seemed to be to prepare a conclusion that would give nothing away, would solve nothing, and would merely refer things to the heads of government for a summit conference. The U.S. objective remains the removal of the Soviet threat to West Berlin, and the threat, in fact, is the real reason that Secretary Herter is talking with the Russians in the first place. President Eisenhower had made it clear that Geneva had not yet "justified" the summit...
...first such attempt since the French Revolution. Said Harvard Greek Professor John Finley in a farewell oration to Jaeger not long ago (following the remarks of Pupil Theophrastus to Master Aristotle): "Happy they with whom he lives, like Hesiod's people for whom the oak at its summit bears acorns, and in its middle branches honey...
...while, it looked as if Kozlov, Christian Herter and Nixon were going to have a small summit meeting right there on the Blair House rug. "I want to straighten out one matter you discussed at the White House this morning," said Secretary Herter. The Russian had told the President that the U.S. had forced the Soviet Union to pay "in gold" for American relief sent to starving Russians in 1921-23. "I was in Russia in 1922," said Herter, who was Herbert Hoover's assistant at the time, "and I went down the Volga. The money which the Congress...
...more like drunks in a conga line. In the thin air, no one could lurch more than 15 steps without rest. The final 400 ft. were up a near-vertical snow wall; somehow they made it, and there was the slender bamboo pole that had been planted on the summit in 1947 by Bradford Washburn, a mountain-climbing geographer. Three men burst into tears. "Do you realize," gasped Buckingham, "do you realize what we've done? Four hackers-we've made a great ascent, maybe the greatest outside of South America in the world...