Word: colds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vast Ignorance. But the big fact about Peaceful Coexistence, 1959-the fact beyond Kozlov's toothy public grin and the U.S. Governors' convivial good will-is that it is a deadly serious part of cold war. Washington encourages a strictly reciprocal exchange in an attempt to dent the vast and dangerous Soviet ignorance of the U.S., make Russians more restlessly aware of the gulf between U.S. and Soviet standards of living. Washington tolerates Kozlov-level visits because the President wants the Kremlin hierarchy to know firsthand that the U.S. is united and deadly serious in its intention...
...Mike Di Salle runs in the primary, either he must pledge himself to Kennedy or Kennedy will run against him. Said Di Salle, when he discovered that there was little else worth saying: "All right, boys. Let's go downstairs. The spaghetti's gettin' cold...
...midst of all the glad-handing in the supermarkets, the other face of Russia came through clear and cold last week from Moscow. It was the face of Nikita Khrushchev, confident, truculent, uncompromising, as he told W. Averell Harriman, U.S. wartime Ambassador to Russia, what he thought of things in a tone that Harriman-were he still ambassador-would have had to protest...
...Geneva. The experience was something like watching the cold war in quick time; in Khrushchev's dialogue, threats followed thaws in a matter of seconds instead of weeks. Now burbling toasts to peace, now bellowing belligerently, Khrushchev made no secret of his cynical contempt for the foreign ministers' meeting at Geneva. "Gromyko." he said, pointing to his Foreign Minister sitting glumly at the foot of the table, "only says what we tell him to say. At the next Geneva meeting he will repeat what he has already told you. If he doesn't, we will fire...
...Djakarta, the capital of the island nation of Indonesia, a government official last week whispered the latest crack: "Anyone who is not totally confused is just very badly informed." Another, and more troubling, crack is that what the tropical paradise of Indonesia needs is "a_cold winter or Mao Tse-tung." Lamented the Times of Indonesia: "Tension is in the air everywhere today. The one sentiment expressed on all sides is that of frustration...