Word: evenings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...allies fully agreed on a formal invitation to Khrushchev to attend an East-West summit in Paris late in April. Ike took the proposal even further by suggesting a series of summits that might last through his presidential term...
There are plenty of problems to be solved among the allies, and some of them must be solved before the West is ready to present Khrushchev with a solid front. But Ike's trip, and even De Gaulle's assertion of independence, made it clear that the West would be dealing at the summit from a new kind of strength, backed by a new kind of world confidence and support...
...Belt Republicans can withstand attacks against Benson and win elections if they have good candidates and arm themselves with other positive issues. It proved that the nation's farmers are not yet mad enough over falling prices to swing, en bloc, to the Democrats. And it suggested that, even among disgruntled farmers, the issue of international peace transcends other national and local problems...
...brooding about the campaign by high-level Republicans to dump him as a political liability. The day before, Republican National Chairman Thruston Morton had dropped a blackjack hint that Benson ought to "step down" for " the good of the party (TIME, Dec. 21). In G.O.P. inner councils there had even been discussion of the possibilities of persuading the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to call Mormon Apostle Benson back home to Salt Lake City for church duty...
From the routine makings of a conventional mystery story, Swiss Author Duerrenmatt produces a well-written and suspenseful story whose sad ironies raise it well above even the best whodunit level...