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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...summit meeting reminded the people of the free world that NATO has a kind of strength which the Soviet empire can never have-a strength based upon a common tradition and common aspirations. Dwight Eisenhower, searching for words to put this thought into writing, told the leaders: "The fundamental genius of actions such as this is that we follow certain principles but recognize certain differences which cannot be surmounted completely. But because of our fundamental unity, we either surmount our difficulties or accommodate them...
...from so. From its inception, NATO has stood for peace, not in the sense of open war delayed by a standoff in the arms race, but in the sense of peace achieved through an expanding state of justice and understanding. In contrast, the Soviet system imposes upon the great mass of its workers a harsh, menacing discipline which drives blindly but inevitably toward concentration on new weapons, including missiles and atomic warheads. The Communists have also enlarged their industrial capacity and dared the West to a world economic contest...
From Cuba, Gossipist Leonard Lyons reported upon a merry encounter with old friends: "The Havana tourist season hasn't started yet. 'That's why this is a good time for working,' Ernest Hemingway had told us earlier, at lunch at his home. On the wall was the mounted skin of the lion Mary Hemingway had shot in Africa. No bullet hole was evident. 'I'm almost embarrassed,' she smiled. 'I shot him while he was running away...
...make "any room a private chapel," the devout may keep their rosaries in a Musical Madonna, which "glows softly with comforting concealed light," and upon opening the rosary drawer, "plays Gounod's Ave Maria." Another item for the room: a plaque of Jesus' head, "breathtaking in its vibrant lifelike color . . . created so that the eyes and face of Jesus follow you in any direction...
...Gazette has played a leading role in breaking dow?n our segregation laws, and at last bringing upon the people of Little Rock the most insufferable outrage ever visited upon an American city. There is a rising tide of race feeling-in fact, a revolution is beginning in the South. Your store and all stores that advertise in the Arkansas Gazette will be placed on one side or the other. This is your notice to make your own choice...