Word: friendlies
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Park Avenue mansion, where Khrushchev greeted an astonished Dag Hammarskjold with an affectionate bear hug. Explaining his antic behavior to a crony, Hungary's ill-starred Janos Kadar, Khrushchev said: "In the Caucasus Mountains they have a custom-while a man is under your roof he is your friend, but when he goes outside you can slit his throat...
...week's end De Gaulle heard more unpleasant news from his good friend, west Germany's Chancellor Adenauer. French Premier Michel Debré had flown to Bonn to try to explain De Gaulle's plans for building up the six-nation European Community at NATO's expense and for establishing his own, $1.3 billion nuclear defense force independent of NATO. Adenauer wants no part of plans that would weaken NATO, and he produced a powerful argument: a private letter from President Dwight Eisenhower warning that any change in the structure of NATO might lead...
...Edmund Burke, he had decided that "to be a conservative today, you have to be a radical." This conclusion led to a $350-a-month assistant editorship on the Freeman magazine and another job with another right-wing magazine, the National Review, put out by his wealthy Yale friend, William (God and Man at Yale) Buckley. "The American tradition," Evans proclaimed in the Review, "is unequivocally conservative." Evans still serves the National Review as a contributing editor...
Veteran Bob Friend (17-12), who relies on breaking pitches. In addition, the Pirates have Southpaws Harvey Haddix (11-10) and Wilmer ("Vinegar Bend") Mizell (13-8) to confound the predominantly lefthanded Yankees' hitting power. Out in the bullpen is one of baseball's top relief men: ElRoy Face (10-8), who throws a dipping forkball that induces rally-killing grounders. For the Yankees, fading Whitey Ford (12-9) still looks able to pitch two big games with know-how and his sharp curve, and Art Ditmar (15-9) has developed into a steady winner with his slider...
...Russian Bolsheviks, fought fascism, ground out radical books and pamphlets, even ran a cooperative toy factory. Ever a champion of unwed mothers, she wilfully became one herself at the age of 45, would say only that her child's father, an Italian author, was "an old and dear friend whom I have loved for years." Her final crusade: restoration of Haile Selassie to Ethiopia's throne after the Italian invasion forced him into exile in 1936. After World War II, she and her love child, Richard, settled in Addis Ababa, where her son lectures at University College. Grateful...