Word: westing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stage-Struclc. In Broken Bow, Neb., while participating in an Old West celebration, Banker Thomas T. Varney Jr. fired blanks enthusiastically at fleeing make-believe robbers, discovered too late that the shells were loaded with birdshot, sent one of his victims a new hat, the other an air pillow...
...hoped to relax tensions-and, in a way that was probably not on his agenda, he had. In three days of secret talks with President Eisenhower at Camp David, Maryland (see The Presidency), he had given what the U.S. took to be a commitment to lift the ultimatum on West Berlin that he had invoked last November...
Back at Camp David, the last round of talks got under way as soon as he got home. Again the President laid down to Khrushchev his basic requirement of good faith: Khrushchev must make it plain that Western rights to remain in West Berlin will not be impaired, and he must remove all threats. Khrushchev at last conceded. The details: 1) Eisenhower and Khrushchev would agree in a formal communique to reopen negotiations on the future of Berlin and Germany; 2) Eisenhower would say publicly this week that Khrushchev had withdrawn all cut-off dates and time limits on Western...
Reuther: If you don't exploit them, why should 3,000,000 of them cross the border into West Germany...
...Americans had fought back from a 6-4 deficit to tie the score at seven first places each. Also, in 36 previous Anglo-American contests over a span of 64 years, Oxford and Cambridge had won 17, and the American universities (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Penn, and West Point) had taken 17, with two meets being tied...