Word: wente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second half of the 20th century, Nixon went on, "can be the darkest or the brightest page in the history of civilization. The decision is in our hands...
After a stop at a booth where Khrushchev took a skeptical sip at a Pepsi-Cola. Nixon and Khrushchev went on to the exhibition's most publicized display: a six-room, model ranch house with a central viewing corridor so that visitors can see the shiny new furnishings. Soviet propaganda had been telling Russians in advance that the ranch house they would see at the U.S. exhibition was no more typical of workers' homes in the U.S. than the Taj Mahal was typical in India or Buckingham Palace in Britain...
Tense and wide-eyed, the scores of officials, security guards and newsmen who were touring the exhibition with Nixon and Khrushchev clustered around the debaters. "I hope the Prime Minister has understood all the implications of what I said," Nixon went on. with an oblique reference to Berlin. "What I mean is that the moment we place either one of these powerful nations, through an ultimatum, in a position where it has no choice but to accept dictation or fight, then you are playing with the most destructive force in the world...
Richest Opportunity. At the formal opening of the exhibition that evening. Khrushchev conceded in his speech to some 4,000 official guests that he had felt "a certain envy" in looking at the displays. But, he went on, the U.S.S.R. would "surpass the U.S., not only in total volume of production but also in per capita production." Russians, he said, "see the American exhibition as an exhibition of our own achievements in the near future." The day is not far off "when our country will overtake our American partner in peaceful economic competition and will then, at some station, come...
Outside the office, Mueller likes to read economics, enjoys bridge, plays golf in the 80s. In 1938, when his wife (who died last year) gave him a plane as a Christmas present, he qualified as a pilot, survived one crash and went on to organize the Grand Rapids Civil Air Patrol, still has a passion for flying, though he gave up piloting in 1951. Friends say Fritz Mueller looks younger than he did when he came to Washington in 1955. "I happen to enjoy the stimulation of challenge," said he, "and Washington is the place to find stimulation...