Word: york
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nikita Khrushchev was much more valuable. The U.S., long since disabused of the image of Nikita the Vodka-Slopping Peasant, already knew Khrushchev to be the skillful and dynamic leader of 200 million people. The U.S. found out, as Khrushchev boiled into successive rages in Washington, New York and Los Angeles (twice) before TV crowds of millions, that Khrushchev could also lay out a combination of uncontrolled willfulness, ignorance and ill temper. Above all, the U.S. found out last week that Khrushchev's New Course of Communism was the same Old Course; that his protestations of peace and friendship...
...black, closed-top Cadillacs ran between silent crowds at a 35-m.p.h. clip. His route was patrolled-sidewalks, roofs, windows, gratings, manhole covers-by 3,300 blue-uniformed police and plainclothesmen. Here and there, Ukrainian and Hungarian pickets waved placards-WELCOME MURDERER, and GO TO THE MOON, LEAVE NEW YORK FOR-US but the police had even ordered the pickets not to carry placard poles...
...Iceland, where U.S. troops and the somewhat diffident Icelanders could get along together. Moreover, with the Communists offering a challenge in next October's Icelandic elections, State decided that General Pritchard was expendable. In turn, the Air Force handed him a juicy new assignment: commander of the New York Air Defense Sector...
...public demonstrated perfect manners in not showing greater disgust." Then it was back to her sailor-man, who was having something of a crisis himself. "All the fuss" over his choice of a traveling companion, groaned Onassis, was threatening to wreck his marriage (Wife Tina had gone to New York, reportedly to see her lawyer). Maria and I-"We love each other, but in God's name there is nothing of a sexual nature." Would he replace Callas' husband, Giovanni Meneghini, as the soprano's manager? "No," said the humble Midas. "My place is in the audience...
...Manhattan to see his grandchildren, Harry S. Truman took note of the Umbrella Man, Dracula, and the rest of New York's juvenile delinquents, thought he knew the real trouble. "Spare the rod and spoil the child is what we've been doing for two generations," said old-fashioned Harry. "The peachtree switch and mother's slipper are the best things in the world to make a kid behave." Had he felt either? Grinned Truman: "Both...