Word: weste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Toward talk's end. Ike made a special point of sounding a strong note on West Berlin: "Freedom, if there's to be peace, is indivisible. We've really got to be firm." Macmillan said, "I agree." On parley-at-the-summit, the President cautioned firmly: "I will not be a party of a meeting that is going to depress and discourage people. Therefore, we must have some promise of fruitful results...
...Manhattan weather was oppressive and steamy, and the night heat shrouded the slum tenements like a great wool blanket. In an unlit concrete playground in the peaceful but teeming Clinton district slum in Hell's Kitchen on the West Side, seven boys and two girls lazed quietly on concrete benches. It was past midnight...
...walls. Ancient, rump-ruptured couches, rescued from the city dump, decorated the floor, and in the center of the room stood an old claw-legged bathtub that could accommodate a couple of good friends. On some evenings, Beatnik Author Lawrence Lipton, whose book, The Holy Barbarians, heralds "Venice West" as the new home of beatdom, read his cool poetry against a jazz background. It was like crazy...
What lay behind the two masks that Communism presented to the world last week? Some guessed that it was part of a global carrot-and-stick exercise, a maneuver planned in Moscow to befuddle the West and destroy its sense of strategic purpose. But many Western diplomats and intelligence agencies believed it more likely that Mao's troublemaking had purely Chinese roots...
...India and Laos, Mao Tse-tung was clearly aware that he was casting a thundercloud over the Khrushchev-Eisenhower meetings. Equally clearly, that suited him fine. Fact is that Peking does not like the prospect, however slim, of a major relaxation of the tensions between Russia and the West. For Mao still requires the cold fear of war hanging over the heads of his 650 million subjects to help force the harsh realities of the Communist revolution down their throats. Peasant resistance to Mao's rural communes, though chiefly passive, has reached proportions alarming to Peking: food, coal, steel...