Word: summits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said Nikita Khrushchev, "you are subtle and clever, leading me into talking about these things." But he talked at length said he was not worried about Red China left Humphrey with the impression that he feels superior about the Chinese. Humphrey got the idea that Khrushchev still wants a Summit conference...
Only last July the flames of aggression blazed so high in the Middle East that the U.S. and Britain dispatched emergency fire fighters to Lebanon and Jordan, and the whole world scrambled for the summit in asbestos suits. Last week, on the strength of International Fire Chief Dag Hammarskjold's diplomatic finding that the flames were now well under control, the U.S. and Britain announced that they would pull all their men out of the two little countries by month...
...whisked away to a Left Bank nightclub. As the lights dimmed, out trotted a pride of chorus girls "absolutely nude except for a climber's rope that bound them together and which was tied in a series of knots not immediately familiar to me." Struggling toward an imaginary summit, the girls suddenly yipped a victory cry. One of them hoisted a small British flag as the band brayed God Save the Queen. "It was all delightful," mused Hunt, "but what has perplexed me to this day is-where did that flag come from...
Lolling in a cabana at Atlantic City, N.J. one day last week were four people who had graciously consented to be judges (no pay, but free room and board) at the Western Hemisphere's annual summit meeting of beauties-the 37th Miss America contest. The quartet: Book Publisher and TV Paneluminary Bennett (What's My Line?) Cerf, his wife Phyllis, Playwright-Producer-Director Moss Hart and his actress-wife Kitty Carlisle (of TV's To Tell the Truth). The following memorable dialogue took place...
...Black Notebook. At Ike's side, standing at the summit of government, Milton could easily have carved out a sub-empire of his own. But in the following five years he has placed himself in full command of nothing but the job of easing the President through the toughest job in the U.S. Ordinarily mild mannered, he can be firm in dealing with those who would add unnecessarily to the presidential burden. After Ike's 1955 heart attack, Attorney General Herbert Brownell began collecting Cabinet suggestions for lightening the President's burden. Brownell carefully compiled...