Word: coldness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Names Making News. Behind Eisenhower's in 1959 came other names familiar to the cold war, and the news they made was dramatic evidence of freedom's vital toughness on many fronts. Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, challenger for Man of the Year, led his Conservative Party to a crushing third straight election victory, an unprecedented feat; in booming Britain his triumph buried the socialist dogma of the 59-year-old Labor Party as an effective political force. Under Konrad Adenauer, Man of the Year in 1953, the resurgent economic strength of free Germany posed such intolerable comparisons that...
...than anything else a repository of traditional U.S. values derived from his boyhood in Abilene, Kans., instilled in him by his fundamentalist parents, drilled into him at West Point, tempered by wartime command, applied to the awesome job of the presidency and expanded to meet the challenges of the cold...
...interest, not out of personal ambition). He gave his reason for seeking re-election to a small group of friends: "I want to advance our chances for world peace, if only by a little, maybe only a few feet." At first his second term seemed only to bring more cold war crises. The President sent U.S. troops to Lebanon, again deployed U.S. warships in Formosa Strait. Then, on Nov. 27, 1958, Russia's Khrushchev handed the Western allies an ultimatum to get out of Berlin...