Word: west
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eisenhower also said that he hopes for progress toward settling East-West differences at the big power foreign ministers' conference opening next week in Geneva. "If anything does develop that enlarges the hope for decreasing world tensions," he said, then "a summit meeting would become almost a foregone conclusion...
Last week restless Bill Lear was off to something new, as usual. In West Los Angeles he opened a $250,000 laboratory to put his company into solid-state physics in his search for new products. Among far-out fields to be studied: microcircuitry (e.g., reducing the chassis of a satellite television unit to a few cubic inches) and electroluminescence (e.g., picturing all of a plane's instrument readings on a cockpit window so the pilot will not have to glance away even when landing or taking off). While moving farther into the wild blue yonder, he is also...
...need to be sophisticated in buying European securities. Tax laws and accounting systems differ; dangers of nationalization and freezing of capital still lurk in some countries; many European companies have yet to adopt the U.S. attitude that the stockholders have every right to look at the books. In Leverkusen, West Germany, the analysts spent two futile hours trying to get profit and sales information from reluctant officials of the big Bayer chemical company...
...Chancellor Adenauer's Christian Democratic Union Party, who became the Saarland's Prime Minister in June 1957, five months after the French relinquished the control they had exercised over the region since the end of World War II; of auto-crash injuries; in Saarbrücken, West Germany...
...Fair Lady raises a topper, The Music Man sounds a trumpet, and West Side Story swings a switchblade in three memorable musical salutes...