Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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LONDON, March 1--Prime Minister Harold Macmillan will return from Moscow tomorrow determined to urge the Western Allies into a summit conference as the only way of removing the Soviet threat to Berlin, responsible British sources said...
...further factor cited was belief that a summit conference offers the most dramatic means of impressing on Khrushchev the NATO resolve that West Berlin stays free despite Soviet threats to neutralize it and turn over control of its traffic with the West to Communist East Germany his talks with Khrushchev...
...London newspapers in close touch with official thinking, the Sunday Times and the Observer, reported that Macmillan will urge President Eisenhower and President Charles de Gaulle of France to go with him to the summit...
...then rated the No. 1 contender for Floyd Patterson's crown. In the past, Patterson's unpredictable manager Cus D'Amato has not matched his man with any fighter who could possibly be considered dangerous. But last week Johansson flew into Manhattan, held a summit meeting with D'Amato, got an agreement "in principle" for a Patterson-Johansson fight in June. Place: the U.S.-exact site undetermined...
...China. The U.S. has successfully fended off the coexistence gambit in many a deceptive form-including siren calls to one more summit conference. But last week it hardly knew what to do when the spirit of coexistence sneaked in via the back door in the person of Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, 63, top Kremlin agent in Budapest during the rape of Hungary, who has a normal smile and what one newsman called "blunt words, crackling wit and unfailing good humor...