Word: west
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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GENEVA, May 11--The Soviet Union and the Big Three Western foreign ministers plunged into cold war negotiations tonight after colliding head-on over German participation. The West beat back a belated Soviet attempt to seat Communist East Germany as a full negotiator...
Cody has an Easterner to thank for its new museum, and a woman at that. One day in 1890, a young sculptress named Gertrude Vanderbilt went to see Colonel William F. ("Buffalo Bill") Cody and his Wild West show, was so fascinated that she went backstage to ask the colonel if she could sketch some of his mustangs. It was the beginning of a lifelong interest in the West, which persisted even after her marriage to Financier Harry Payne Whitney. She sculpted a monumental statue of Buffalo Bill, in 1924 donated it to the town of Cody, along with...
Write & Light. A combination ballpoint-flashlight, made in West Germany, is being sold by Chicago's Crittenton Manufacturing Co. A flick-on switch directs a circle of light onto the writing surface, makes pen handy for use at lectures, in theaters, on night tables or as a pocket flashlight. Price...
Died. General Sir Kenneth Arthur Noel Anderson, 67, India-born World War II commander of the British First Army, who led his fellow veterans of Dunkirk across North Africa from the west, captured Tunis in 1943; of pneumonia; in Gibraltar, where he had served as governor and commander in chief until his retirement...
AMMAN, Jordan, May 10--The new premier of Jordan said today that this country will steer clear of military pacts with either East or West...