Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over one-half of the Senior Class will graduate with honors today. Sixty-eight will receive cum laudes; 41, magna cum laudes; and seven, summa cum laudes. Women receiving summas are Sandra Chrones, Oneonta, N.Y.; Joy Hambuechen, Huntington, L.I.; Margaret V. Means, Summit, N.J.; Cynthia M. Rich, Baltimore; Evelyn Janover, New York City; and Elizabeth Waddington, Bartlesville, Okla...
President Eisenhower's greatest foreign-policy blunder, Harriman implies, was his conduct at last summer's Parley at the Summit at Geneva: "It was. without question, right and proper that he should have gone there'. . . But it was of the greatest importance that he make no mistake . . . The impression was conveyed to the world that the cold war was over . . . The President gave every evidence of personal trust in the Kremlin leaders and even went so far as to credit the Russians with a desire for peace no less earnest than that of the West . . . Tensions relaxed...
...north as they had each spring for generations, a band of Bakhtiari tribesmen rode from winter pasturage in Shiraz and Khuzistan to summer fields in Isfahan province. In their ankle-length gowns and brimless felt hats, they nimbly crossed rock-strewn slopes, driving herds before them. At Do Polan summit the brazen, electronic voice of the 20th century met the ancient, changeless East. Four loudspeakers placed around a neat white tent blared at the tribesmen: "Stop...
Worried lest the weather beat him again, Maki sent his men scurrying upward before early monsoons. They made a base camp at 24,000 ft. and rested for their predawn assault. Near the summit the air was dead calm, and the climbers hacked steps that took them up the final 2,658 ft. in a scant six hours. On the sun-drenched summit they stayed long enough to take pictures and offer Buddhist prayers. Two days later, a second team climbed the peak...
...disintegration of Adenauer's leadership began with Geneva's conference at the Summit. In Adenauer's eyes the Western policy of building strength in concert, which had enabled West Germany to defy Soviet displeasure and declare its sovereignty, had been abandoned, and the pillar on which he had leaned for six years had given way. The sight of Eisenhower beaming at Bulganin, Macmillan crying "There ain't gonna be no war," the new atmosphere of relaxation, confused and bewildered him. His mission to Moscow, which followed soon after, virtually shattered him. He considered Russian leaders...