Word: summits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Beyond the Iron and Bamboo Curtains were 6,000,000 Communists, more or less loyal to Soviet Russia. How badly that image has been shattered was illustrated by the very birthday greeters who came-or failed to come -to Moscow. Khrushchev apparently wanted to prepare a full-dress Communist summit meeting to condemn China. Instead of simply calling such a meeting and dictating the resolutions, Khrushchev had to plead and argue with foreign parties, including those from his own satellites. The Italians, among others, did not even send a delegation to Moscow. The rest plainly urged restraint, not because they...
...understandable, for the huddle brought together, for the first time in a year, the leaders of the country's three warring factions: Neutralist Premier Souvanna Phouma, pro-Communist Pathet Lao Chief Prince Souphanouvong, and General Phoumi Nosavan, boss of the right-wing forces. Prompted by Souvanna Phouma, the "summit" was to discuss how the Pathet Lao might be brought back to Souvanna's coalition government-which the Reds fled when new fighting broke out a year...
...Haroun Tazieff, who was hired by .the Costa Rican government to study Irazú and try to predict its tantrums. Fearing exactly the kind of explosion that occurred last week, he urged that tourists be barred from the crater. Now the authorities have closed the tempting road to the summit...
...Beta Kappa elected the "Junior 8" last night. They are: Lawrence G. Brown of Lowell House and University City, Mo., mathematics; Howard E. Gardner of Winthrop House and Scranton, Pa., social relations; Jonathan P. Goldman of Adams House and Trenton, N.J., English; Paul Horowitz of Lowell House and Summit, N.J., physics...
This nose is a shrine. It starts at the summit of her hive-piled hair and ends where a trombone hits the D below middle C. The face it divides is long and sad, and the look in repose is the essence of hound. She is about as pretty, in short, as Fanny Brice; but as she sings number after number and grows in the mind, she touches the heart with her awkwardness, her lunging humor, and a bravery that is all the more winning because she seems so vulnerable. People start to nudge one another and say, "This girl...