Word: talk
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...Unfinished Business." President Eisenhower, his personal leadership lifted to new highs of confidence by his triumph in Western Europe, was ready in the White House for whatever Khrushchev might bring. "The choice before world leaders is momentous," he said in a 15-minute TV talk to the nation. "It is my profound hope that some real progress will be forthcoming, even though no one would be so bold as to predict such an outcome. In this connection I know that neither America nor her allies will mistake good manners and candor for weakness; no principle or fundamental interest will...
...moreover, the technical obstacles to U.S.-U.S.S.R. foreign aid-e.g., project control, currency convertibility-are large. But the President, buoyed up by the success of his personal diplomacy to date, intends to press hard for his new approach with Khrushchev this week. As he said in his TV talk with Prime Minister Macmillan in London, "There are millions of people today who are living without sufficient food, shelter, clothing and health facilities. They are not going to remain quiescent. There is just going to be an explosion if we don't help...
...made it clear to the State Department that he really did not want to see any more of the U.S. landscape than he could avoid (he ducked a visit to TVA and Ike's old home at Abilene, Kans.). Quite obviously, he wanted a lot of places to talk and a lot of people to listen to him. From all the week-before signs, that is just what most of the curious and relaxed U.S. wanted...
Showing up in Atlantic City, N.J. to talk before an Israel Bond rally, Novelist Leon Uris (Exodus, Battle Cry), 35, recalled his record at Philadelphia's Bartram High School, said he had flunked English three times and was about to register flunk No. 4 when he enlisted in the Marine Corps. To Uris, who recently signed a contract with Columbia Pictures for four sight-unseen novels, the matter was merely academic, but "it's a good thing English has nothing to do with writing...
...Lion of St. Mark. But whatever prize // Generate won in the final voting, it had already earned the heartfelt gratitude of the festival's organizers by transforming a show that was turning into what some critics called "the 20th yawn ? festival.'' Before Rossellini turned up, there was even talk that the festival might die out altogether in the next few years...