Word: fostered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Able and Baker entered and left space at a portentous earthly moment. Just a day earlier Statesman John Foster Dulles had been buried on the date set, and broken, by Russia's Nikita Khrushchev as the deadline for the Western powers to desert West Berlin. Now the Big Four foreign ministers were returning to Geneva, where they had been trying to get off the diplomatic ground for three weeks. The trip of Able and Baker had meaning to the Geneva conference. A Russian dog named Laika had been the first living animal to orbit through space, and there...
...private talks at the White House with the Geneva conference's Big Four foreign ministers-U.S.'s Christian Herter. U.K.'s Selwyn Lloyd, France's Maurice Couve de Murville. Russia's Andrei Gromyko-who were in Washington to attend the funeral of John Foster Dulles. In a pointed warning to Gromyko, Ike told the Big Four that he hoped for enough "measure of success" at Geneva to make a Russia-coveted summit conference "desirable and useful...
...funeral of John Foster Dulles was a hero's tribute, the first in the nation's history to be designated by the President as an "official" funeral. Gathered at Arlington National Cemetery was the greatest assemblage of foreign statesmen and diplomats ever to attend the burial of a U.S. citizen...
...like the movement of a glacier, the progress of the Geneva talks was all but undetectable to the naked eye. If, after Herter, Couve and Lloyd returned from John Foster Dulles' funeral, the conference continued at the same profitless pace, the idea just might occur to everyone that little more could be achieved by talking to the head man himself...
Died. John Foster Dulles, 71; of cancer; in Washington (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...