Word: four
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Explosive Events. Dulles saw merit in the proposal for an Eisenhower-Khrushchev exchange, but first he wanted to find out if some sort of progress could be made at a U.S.-sponsored meeting of the Big Four foreign ministers at Geneva. The U.S. was represented at that conference by a new Secretary of State, Christian Herter, for in February Foster Dulles, gallant warrior, entered Walter Reed Army Hospital with a recurrence of cancer. And on May 24, 1959, the colleague Ike had trusted beyond any other died in his sleep...
Last week Connecticut's highest court, the Supreme Court of Errors, upheld the birth-control ban for the third time in the past two decades. Before the court was a package of four related test-case suits, brought by Dr. C. Lee Buxton, chairman of the Yale Medical School's obstetrics and gynecology department, and three patients who had medical reasons for wanting to prevent conception. Plaintiff Buxton claimed a right, as a physician, to "practice his profession free from unreasonable restraint." The three patients claimed a right to the benefit of a physician's advice...
...Montgomery, Ala., where the Negroes' peaceful resistance to segregation sparked the bitterly successful 1956 bus boycott (TIME, Dec. 31, 1956), city fathers sold off the last animals in the Oak Park Zoo four months after a U.S. district court ruled that segregation in the park was unconstitutional. The animal sale marked the end of Montgomery's park system, left the city's 45,000 Negro and white children without a public swimming pool, tennis court or woodland glade...
...brief communiqué ending the three-day exchanges barely mentioned the Berlin question, and when the Germans tried afterward to indicate that the Western Four had taken a stronger attitude on Berlin, another Western minister rejoined: "No-but we have not taken a weaker stand." This same minister, asked to say what the big confrontation accomplished, quipped that it had "relaxed tensions between the allies." In the end, every issue of substance was referred back to working committees for "further study." Working committees exist for just that; what miffed the members of these committees was that the Western Four...