Word: troops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Garrison State? At his press conference, the President keyed the week to the U.S.'s determination to defend its rights of free access across Communist East Germany to West Berlin-"We could not abandon them; we never would abandon them." Asked about the possibility of "troop withdrawals or disengagement in Central Europe," he ducked a direct answer but stressed that any agreement with the U.S.S.R. in Europe must rest upon "some self-enforcing element . . . so that we can have confidence...
Precisely at 3 o'clock one afternoon last week, a Comet 4 jetliner landed at Moscow's Vrukovo Airport and began to disgorge a troop of Britons incongruously decked out in Russian-style fur hats, rented from London's famed provider of borrowed finery, Moss Bros. As the visitors emerged into the unseasonable warmth (41°), a Soviet honor guard sprang to attention, bayonets flashing in the sunlight, and a military band broke into God Save the Queen. Beaming broadly, Nikita Khrushchev doffed his own beaver hat and told Prime Minister Harold Macmillan: "We welcome...
...consider Sunday the best of the three days since everyone gives up running around and settles down to milk punch for breakfast and a "black" hour. (For the uninitiated, this means a time for telling offcolor stories). In the afternoon there is a "cage" party when the remaining couples troop upstairs to a dormitory room and finish off any left over liquor and choose the prettiest girl and the best dancer...
...Shubert. These ten minutes show a backyard party, conducted to the tune of a cheerfully cheesy waltz, suddenly interrupted by the entrance of a woman on the way to the funeral of her son, who had been killed fighting for the Irish Republic. Most of the party, suddenly chastened, troop out as mourners, and the man who had been forced to inform on the dead soldier tries to relieve his feelings in a desperately gay dance...
...Frondizi's Labor Minister declared the strike illegal, and police quickly rounded up 350 Communist and Peronista labor leaders. Frondizi calmly boarded a DC-6 to keep his date in the U.S. By the time he arrived in Charleston, S.C., Argentina was at a standstill, except for troop-guarded public-utility plants, and the nation's oil workers had been drafted into the army...