Word: wanting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...looking son Sergei, 24, and a retinue of 63 officials and bureaucrats. There on his other hand stood President Eisenhower. "Permit me at this moment to thank Mr. Eisenhower for the invitation," Khrushchev said graciously, responding to the President's coolly proper speech of greeting. "The Soviet people want to live in friendship with the American people." But Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev was not five minutes into his speech or 15 minutes into the U.S. before he sounded a prideful note of power that was to echo, sometimes blaring, sometimes muted, as the dominant theme of his trip. "Shortly before...
...This Favorite Horse." Khrushchev wound up his prepared text on California weather, disarmament, how Los Angeles smog resembled the cold war, then looked at Mayor Poulson. "I want to ask you," he said, "why did you mention that? Already in the U.S. I have clarified that. I trust that even mayors read." The crowd gave Khrushchev a laugh and a round of applause. "In our country," Khrushchev went on, "chairmen of councils who do not read the press risk not being re-elected." The crowd gave Khrushchev another big hand; two-time Mayor Poulson turned crimson. Then Khrushchev went...
...sleep, the provincial paper Gazeta Robotnicza blamed the Ziebice fiasco on the fact that Ziebice's Communists were unwilling to accept responsibility. "We might as well say why," mused the paper unhappily. "A number of our activists have come to like the petty-bourgeois way of life. They want nothing else but to be left in peace...
...President Eisenhower's desk for signature this week: a bill providing the largest company health-insurance program in the country. Eligible: 2,000,000 federal employees and their families, who may choose just about any kind of medical plan they want, either Blue Cross-Blue Shield, insurance company indemnity plans, or a special group-practice plan with a contracted pool of doctors. Scheduled to go into effect July 1, 1960, the new program will cost $222 million annually, to be shared in most cases on a fifty-fifty basis by the Government and individual civil servants...
...main East Lansing campus, crewcut Dean Robert Hoopes, 39, onetime Marine Corps aviator, laid out his goal: to teach the art of living as well as pure knowledge. Said he to M.S.U.Oakland's first 500 students (all freshmen): "What is success? What is good? What do I want? Where am I going? You are in college to seek answers to those questions, and the first thing to discover is that there are no pat answers...