Word: wente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wrote Journalist Luigi Barzini in Corriere Delia Sera on the day after Ike's arrival in Rome: "We welcome this man who speaks to us with the accent of Kansas of farmers who cultivate fields of wheat as vast as seas, of pioneers who went West not long before his birth. He speaks without rhetoric before the imminent peril as he calls for 'Peace, Peace,' -but not peace for the sake of quiet or lack of principle, but peace in which free men believe...
...Gates, in sharp contrast, is a stiff-upper-lip Philadelphia investment banker and World War II Navyman (four stripes in Air Intelligence). He went to Washington as Under Secretary to Navy Secretary Robert Anderson (now Secretary of the Treasury), inevitably inherited the top Navy job in 1957. He ran a taut and tidy ship, was always willing to listen and learn, but ready with a decision when it was called for. When a new naval aide reported to him for duty, Gates told him: "Look, I need ideas. I can light my own cigarettes." Says a three-star admiral...
...agreed to total disarmament, the report went on, Communists could gain world supremacy through easy-to-conceal production of relatively few weapons. But the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. could profitably agree on strategic forces "limited to retaliatory systems capable of surviving a first strike, though insufficient for employment in a first strike." If neither side built enough arms to wipe out the other's retaliatory power, argued the report, the world might reach a "high degree of nuclear stability," a real stalemate rather than one favoring the Russians over the next decade...
...campaign strategy of Adlai Stevenson, phantom candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination (TIME, Oct. 5), was sadly reaffirmed by another Democratic hopeful, who went to Stevenson to ask for his endorsement and anonymously told about the outcome last week. Adlai replied that 1) he would endorse no one, at least not until after the presidential primaries; 2) he will not withdraw his own name from speculation, but 3) he will make no overt effort to obtain the Democratic nomination. In Cheyenne, Wyo., Democratic Pacemaker John Kennedy tut-tutted such coy stratagems. Said he: "The primaries are going to be decisive...
...Nehru's second trip to the U.S., soon after Hungary and Suez had erupted into the headlines. Spending a day at Ike's Gettysburg farm, the two began talking at breakfast, continued through the morning until lunch. Then after a short nap, the talks went on through the late afternoon, dinner and evening-a total of 14 hours. It was, said Nehru, the longest sustained conversation he has ever had with anyone, and it touched on subjects ranging from the painting of Grandma Moses to the personality of Nikita Khrushchev...