Word: ironically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More startling, and potentially perhaps even more important, were the effects of Ike's initiative behind the Iron Curtain. In the U.N. Security Council Russia accepted with uncharacteristic calm the proposition that its cherished veto power did not apply to the dispatch of a U.N. team to investigate Communist aggression in Laos. And from Moscow came a determinedly noncommittal Kremlin announcement on the border dispute between Red China and India. Clearly concerned lest Mao Tse-tung's aggressiveness sabotage Khrushchev's dream of establishing "Big Two" relations with the U.S.-and probably concerned, too, at the setback...
...Tito have twice traded visits, Tito has presented the monarch with a yacht, and Ethiopia has built a palace in Addis Ababa just for Tito-Haile Selassie has veered away from the West to sample the plums of neutralism. After a triumphant red-carpet tour of Europe and the Iron Curtain this summer, the Emperor came home counting his blessings like beads on a string: $5,000,000 from the Czechs, $7.14 million from the Germans, $10 million from Tito, plus a passel of economic advisers who now virtually manage Ethiopia's economy, and a grand prize...
...Iron & Haggis. That again enraged British newsmen. But their biggest gripe was that President Eisenhower refused to hold a press conference, although he had done so in West Germany. In rebuttal, Hagerty stubbornly and rightly maintained that Eisenhower was not at the beck and call of the press: "The President of the United States is here as a Chief of State, and he makes his own decisions." (Beyond that, British Prime Ministers never grant on-the-record press conferences...
...Eisenhower's visit, this iron streak of Hagerty's in standing up to the daily hammering by the press had won the grudging admiration of many British newsmen. The night before Eisenhower left, one hitherto critical Fleet Streeter declared: "We have learned to regard you here as a friend and helper." Then he added: "Should the President come back again, we shall try to ask you questions such as 'Will he be having haggis for lunch?' " Deadpanned Jim' Hagerty: "Thank you very much. I appreciate...
...less. In one sweep of a pen, the total number of German stockholders was increased by a third, to around 800,000. Determined to have a competitive private-enterprise economy, the government is now planning to sell off the great Volkswagen works, a steel and iron-ore company, a shipbuilding company and an aluminum company. Finding buyers is no problem. Since they were issued in March (and nearly 200% oversubscribed), the Preussag shares have risen in value from $34.50 to $59.50. Public interest in stock purchasing has risen to such a pitch throughout Germany that the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung recently...