Word: weste
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...nation's best secondary schools, Roxbury Latin in Boston. In his 303 he was one of the country's most brilliant young chemists. At 40 he became president of Harvard (1933-53). At 60 he became U.S. High Commissioner and Ambassador to West Germany (1953-57). At 66 he is deep in a third career-teaching Americans about their public schools...
...fateful progression of events that spanned an era, the man who commanded the victorious Western armies, the man who as NATO's Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, forged the shield that protected recovery from that war, was the man who as U.S. President was the walking symbol of the West's hopes for an American-led future. "That man couldn't do wrong if he tried," said a woman in London. "He's got goodness written all over him," said another. In West Germany a young gasoline-station attendant said, "Eisenhower's a nice...
...role that combined old memories with new trust, the President carried a special strength for NATO. Stopping off at Bonn, he said that West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer symbolized "freedom," and at once Adenauer was unchallengeable in West Germany. He went on TV with Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan (see The Presidency), gave an undeniable push to Macmillan's reelection. The President and France's President Charles de Gaulle clasped hands as men of honor, and NATO's recent rifts were forgotten; De Gaulle later messaged the President: "I very much hope to be able...
...Communists last week met the quest for relaxation by increasing their prices for it. In a 7,000-word article in Foreign Affairs, Russia's Nikita Khrushchev denned peaceful coexistence as meaning Western abandonment of West Berlin on Russian terms, and acceptance of the Communist conquest of the captive nations of Eastern Europe. Red China stirred up ferment on the borders of India. North Viet Nam's Ho Chi Minh upgraded his years-long guerrilla bites at Laos (pop. 2,000,000) into an artillerysupported invasion (see FOREIGN NEWS) so threatening that Laos appealed to the United Nations...
Daughter of France, by V. Sackville-West. Louis XIV's scow-shaped spinster cousin, Anne Marie, who for years drifted sluggishly through the roiled waters of the French court, is portrayed by a witty biographer...