Word: summits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...element: the U.S. would try to run ground convoys to West Berlin even if it meant challenging Communist roadblocks with armored column escort. Diplomatic element: the U.S. was ready for Big Four foreign ministers' talks at Geneva (probable date: May 11), after that for a parley at the summit (probable location: Geneva). Next morning the President called in congressional leaders-Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn, Republican Senate Leader Everett Dirksen and House Minority Leader Charles Halleck-gave a total briefing. Said Speaker Rayburn afterward: "The upshot of it is that we are united...
LONDON, March 13--Prime Minister Harold Macmillan will fly back from Bonn tonight with broad German and French support for a program leading to summit talks with the Soviet Union by July...
...good deal of interest this year has been focused on Sugarbush, a new development just this side of Mad River Glen in Vermont. Opening in December, it has had a very successful year so far. Sugarbush boasts a magnificent view from the summit, as well as spacious gondola cars...
...skier, Wildcat has little to offer, although the view of Mount Washington from the summit is worth the ride up. It lacks the Sugarbush atmosphere, but provides a more rugged day of skiing for the addict. And if you ski in blue jeans and an H.A.A. sweat shirt, no one will snicker...
...indirectly retreated from his ultimatum to hand over the corridors to Berlin to the East German government on May 27. He has done this by backing down and accepting Western demands for a conference of Foreign Ministers, which would presumably negotiate plans for Berlin, Central Europe and a summit meeting. Thus, Macmillan's most important achievement is that by convincing Khrushchev that solutions may be reached by negotiation rather than by ultimatums and force, he has made the international situation less explosive...