Word: christians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Five Strikes & a Spare. Eisenhower and Khrushchev flew from Washington to Camp David together in a helicopter, accompanied only by their interpreters and secret-service details. Their principal aides-Secretary of State Christian Herter and Ambassador to the U.N. Henry Cabot Lodge; Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and U.S.S.R. Ambassador Mikhail Menshikov-also helicoptered together. First evening the two parties sat down to a roast beef dinner, afterwards watched U.S. Navy movies taken on the North Pole trip of the nuclear submarine Nautilus, and also took in a western movie. The sleeping arrangements: Eisenhower, Herter, Khrushchev, Gromyko had adjoining single...
Nudge from Washington. No less important, De Gaulle had many a Foreign Office in his corner. From the U.S., Secretary of State Christian Herter gave the rebels a nudge with his statement that De Gaulle's "far-reaching declaration" promised "a just and peaceful solution for Algeria." Even Morocco's King Mohammed V and Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba, long among the rebels' strongest supporters, were urging the F.L.N. to give De Gaulle "a constructive answer." Glumly, F.L.N. leaders faced the fact that the resolution condemning French policy in Algeria, which they had confidently expected...
...Love You." The son of a rich Ceylonese public servant whose devotion to the British Crown won him a knighthood in 1907, Banda had long steered a perilous course through the tricky tides of Asian politics. He was raised a Christian and educated at Oxford, where his debating skill earned him the admiration of his English classmate, Anthony Eden. But once back home, Banda renounced Christianity in favor of Buddhism, threw off Western dress in favor of long white sarongs, and plunged into the movement that was to bring Ceylon independence within the Commonwealth...
...island in the early 19th century, more than 100 died in an 18-month period of hepatitis and amoebic dysentery. A rat-infested house on the atherapeutic isle served as prison for the man who had marched vast armies from Moscow to Madrid, and once ruled half the Christian world. Only a few years before, Napoleon had unwittingly forecast his fate: "It is but a step from the sublime to the ridiculous...
Nine o'clock is a hardy hour and some of the subject matter is appropriately idealistic. The early-to-bed type, in fact, has a choice of pursuing either the pagan or the Christian mode in his search for the Good Life. Professor Demos in Philosophy 102 (Sever 11) unravels the philosophies of Plato, while Professor Buttrick explores the Old Testament in Humanities 124 (Emerson...