Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some 4,000 miles to the east, sturdy old (80) Chancellor Konrad Adenauer of West Germany was a significant symbol of this interdependence. Preparatory to a long-planned trip to the U.S., Adenauer had just coped successfully with some of the basic problems vexing his government at home (see FOREIGN NEWS). By going to Washington he hoped to strengthen his position with the U.S. and thus with the world. But Washington meant Dwight Eisenhower: before boarding the plane, Adenauer was told of Eisenhower's illness, and his hopes fell. After he landed in New York, he was informed that...
Even so, there are always politicians ready to demand a new, direct approach to Moscow. For them, Chancellor Adenauer found a timely and devastating answer last week. It came from France's Premier Guy Mollet, as he and Adenauer talked over the Saar settlement. On his recent trip to Moscow, Mollet was told by Khrushchev: "Seventeen million Germans in hand are preferable to 70 million united, even though neutral, Germans...
...resigned from the R.A.F., effective next fall. His plans for the future: an 18-month, globe-girdling tour in a Land Rover (the British blowup of a jeep), driving wherever there is the semblance of a road, traveling between hemispheres by ship. He will journey alone. Purpose of the trip: "I just want...
...remainder of the team will come from Yale, Jim Van Alen and George Unhoch, Princeton, George Reindel, and Pennsylvannia, Bill Van Alen. U.S. Army Private Dwight Davis, former number two man on the Crimson ladder, will not make the trip because of Army regulations...
...this, and the fact that one of the first editors of Pravda was a young Georgian bandit named Djugashvili, alias Koba, alias Stalin, he owed his future. His own underground alias was derived from molot, meaning hammer. But though he was as methodical and repetitive as a foundry trip hammer, the stuff of his soul was not steel, but the durable latex of a heavy-handed rubber stamp. "The best filing, clerk in Russia," Lenin had said. "You are mediocrity incarnate," shouted Trotsky...