Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Special Train to Brussels. Confronted with such plain-spoken unanimity from his EDC partners, Mendes urgently needed U.S. and British backing. He signally failed to get it from the U.S. John Foster Dulles was exasperated by Mendès' suggestion that Russia would have several months' time-between the French As sembly's approval of the emasculated EDC and final ratification by the French Senate-to talk "concessions" over Germany. Said a tough State Department cable to the British Foreign Office: "A new delaying condition prior to complete ratification [would convince the U.S.] that France cannot...
British Ambassador to France Sir Gladwyn Jebb asked Mendes outright for an explicit guarantee that he would not abandon EDC in return for Soviet "concessions" on Germany. Mendes evaded the question. Nevertheless, as Mendes boarded his special train to Brussels, Jebb was waiting on the platform with a message brought directly from Sir Winston Churchill, promising British support...
...Italy united to pay the old mountaineer homage. A special train, stopping at way stations where silent thousands gathered, took the body back to Rome. And there, this week, after high petitions by his beloved Church for heavenly grace, rich in earthly honors, Alcide de Gasperi would be laid to rest in Rome's magnificent Basilica San Lorenzo...
...Home Abroad. The Italians proved rather difficult by not permitting Muggs to be photographed in front of national monuments. He was refused a seat on an Italian train, although the Italian airline was delighted to have him. At the Rome Zoo, troubles mounted: Egypt's exiled King Farouk would not pose with Muggs. and a rogue elephant ate the chimp's shoes. In Cairo Muggs scratched the nose of a somnolent camel, while in Tokyo 70 reporters and photographers met him at the airport and 15 geishas fanned him while he napped. The Paris press ignored Muggs...
...what she does. She gets up in the morning and thinks of the movies. She works at them, and at lunch she talks about them. She knows nothing whatever about ordinary little details of life . . . how much a ticket from Rome to Paris costs, or what time the train leaves. She would think nothing of it if you told her you had paid $500 for a Cadillac. But she knows how much a good scriptwriter should get, or what the going rate is for a technician, or what any given cameraman's strong points...