Word: wanted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Minnesota's Humphrey and his wife Muriel, touring Europe, had gone to Moscow almost as an afterthought. But once there, Humphrey decided "to ask for everything and see what I got." Said he to the Intourist guide who took him in tow: "I want to see the Minister of Health and the Minister of Education." The Intourist man looked gravely doubtful. Continued Humphrey: "I want to appear on your television." The guide prepared to leave. Concluded Humphrey: "And I want to see Mr. Khrushchev." The guide was gone...
Humphrey worked his way through a score of Soviet ministers, deputy ministers and lesser bureaucrats. He appeared live on Moscow television for ten minutes ("We want to know you and we want you to know us and visit us."), taped a 25-minute program for radio; he wrote a signed article for Izvestia on the U.S. desire for peace, interlarding it with statistics calculated to show the contrast between U.S. and Russian life ("three quarters of our families own their own homes and their own automobiles, which war would all destroy"). And one afternoon, checking in with the Soviet Committee...
...Some jumped 25 ft. down to concrete pavements below, limped or crawled away with twisted limbs. Some hung on, waited for the firemen. Fourth-Grader Ronnie Sarno, 10, fought to a window, called out to his nine-year-old sister Joanne: "I'm going to jump! Do you want to come?" As he eased himself over the sill, he heard her scream: "Don't jump, Ron! Don't jump!" And never saw her alive again...
...JOSEPH, PROMISE TO DO MY BEST, TO DO MY DUTY TO GOD AND MY COUNTRY, TO BE SQUARE, AND TO ... Alive Was Kenny Travers, 7, whose mother told a reporter, "I hugged him and hugged him" -whereupon Kenny interrupted, "And you said I can get candy whenever I want ." Two days later police watched understandingly as a man beat his hands against the door of Our Lady of the Angels, crying: "Come on out now, son. I'm out here waiting...
...want to warn you," he added, "that any discussion of a peace treaty means discussing the Eastern frontier question," i.e., risking endorsement of the present Oder-Neisse border with Poland and thus abandoning Germany's "lost territories" to the East. It was the Chancellor's clinching argument, and a specifically German one, which had less appeal outside (the London Economist commented icily that the West "will still fight for Berlin but it will not fight for Breslau...