Word: facing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Nikita Khrushchev clumped off the Baltika on his arrival in the United States, he looked at the crowd waiting on the dingy East River pier, saw a somewhat camouflaged familiar face and, with a steely grin, stroked his chin. This was the Soviet boss's wordless greeting to a man he recognized as a member of the press corps, TIME'S Moscow Bureau Chief Edmund Stevens. Since Khrushchev had last seen him, Stevens, while on vacation. had grown a rusty beard. Later, in a bantering mood, Khrushchev likened the beard to Pushkin's, and predicted that Stevens...
...deliberate offensiveness, compared him with a man whose policies Macmillan, as a prewar M.P., had bitterly opposed-Neville Chamberlain. Said Khrushchev: "Chamberlain said he had come to terms with Hitler and there would be no war. Macmillan said he had talked with Adenauer and there would be no war." Face to face with Macmillan in a two-hour talk, Khrushchev was more courteous-but so intransigent that Macmillan canceled plans to return to London in favor of a weekend strategy conference with Dwight Eisenhower...
...Speaking to the home folks from New York, he said he wished that everyone would get back to the pre-summit mood: "It needs a little loss of face, if you like...
...Academy Award-winning Actress Simone Signoret), who signed a petition urging French soldiers to desert rather than take up arms against the Algerian rebels. Le Grand Charles decreed punishment rare in any country calling itself a democracy. Government employees who signed or support the petition, such as teachers, face suspension at one-third pay; actors and directors were forbidden employment in French radio and television or in state-run or state-subsidized theaters and films. Minister of Culture Andre Malraux (whose daughter and divorced wife were among the signers) was ordered to draft a bill denying state financial...
With high hopes for a comeback from last year's dismal showing, the varsity cross country team will face a fair to middling Cornell squad this morning at 10 a.m. in Ithaca...