Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aside from its proud snowcap, the Mt. Evans summit boasts the Inter-University High Altitude Laboratory. There, climbers found a familiar piece of equipment: a massive, steel low-pressure chamber. Dr. Balke wanted to know whether his conditioned volunteers would be as subject to the bends and the chokes (painful, potentially fatal disorders caused by nitrogen bubbling out of solution in the blood) as a man zooming up from sea level...
...Communist Chinese obviously do not like a U.N. where Nationalist China has a seat and they are excluded; and they would hardly welcome Khrushchev's designation of Nehru as the appropriate man to represent Asia. Not only did the Mao-Khrushchev talks kill the U.N. summit conference; they also involved Khrushchev in a display of belligerence that went far beyond his usual pro forma reminders of Russian military power. The communiqué itself was disfigured by a gratuitous threat "to wipe out clean the imperial aggressors and so establish everlasting peace." And on the heels of this saber-rattling...
...always, there were some who thought that Khrushchev had planned it all that way: that having lost the advantage of a summit on his terms, he wanted out. But he hardly had to back out in a way that so reflected on his own authority...
With Due Deference. The Peking meeting was an undisguised personal reverse that could only strengthen the position of the men in Moscow who had regarded his Mideast summit policy as rash and unsound. The Russian censors even let pass an A.P. dispatch suggesting that Khrushchev's stature had been diminished in Moscow...
Seven-Column Spread. Kubitschek did not press his idea of launching Operation Pan-American with a summit meeting. "A presidential conference," he said, "might be opportune to launch the Operation in due course, after full discussion and preparation." Their final agreement: Brazil and the U.S. will sound out the other 19 republics in the hemisphere, and, if acceptable, set up a working group in Washington by late September to draw up an outline development program; any meeting of Presidents would follow later. With that settled, Dulles and Kubitschek took time out to pose for pictures...