Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cairo newspapers headily called their session (held in Farouk's old palace) an Arabic "parley at the summit." It was quite a summit. Egypt's 38-year-old Dictator Gamal Abdel Nasser, flush with achievement, had called the meeting and brought it new Middle East prestige: with his purchase of Communist arms and his inflammatory broadcasts to neighboring states, he had done as much as any man to seize opportunity on the troubled Mediterranean rim. As a show of his strength, he sent Soviet-made MIG fighters to escort Saudi Arabia's King Saud on his flight...
...abortion mill was detected while being routinely treated at City Hospital. In his years at the game, Dr. Knapp had never had the slightest trouble with the law or with the medical profession. In fact, he testified, other doctors had referred many cases to him, and the Summit County Medical Society knew about his activities and "had been most kind...
...Question No. 1: "Do you approve or disapprove of the way Eisenhower is handling his job as President?'' Results: approve, 77%; disapprove, 13%; no opinion, 10%. This was the second highest rating (highest: 79% after the Summit conference last August; lowest: 57% after the 1954 congressional elections) that the Gallup poll had recorded for Dwight Eisenhower since he became President...
...went to Geneva last summer, the President wrote, in search of just the kind of peace Bulganin now seemed to have in mind. But what has happened since the Geneva Summit Conference? Russia, said Ike, has refused to try to reunify Germany through free elections, and has refused the "open skies" proposal as a step to practical nonaggression. Obviously referring to the Soviet diplomatic offensive in the Middle East, the President added: "To us it has seemed that your government ... in various areas of the world, [has] embarked upon a course which increases tension by intensifying hatreds and animosities...
...fear is gone, or at least the urgent sense of it. "There ain't gonna be no war," cried Britain's Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan in the afterglow of Russian smiles at the first Geneva meeting at the summit. Last week the NATO nations, sweaty in their armor under the fitful post-Geneva sun, were somewhat shamefacedly wondering aloud whether all that weight was really necessary. They sometimes had the air of men trying to remember what all the excitement had been about. Implied but never stated was a bigger question: "Is NATO itself really necessary...