Word: prospects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beyond Stalemate. By this time, most Cabinet members had been filled in on the steps that led to the Eisenhower exchange of visits. The story: Back in June, when the Geneva conference on Berlin recessed for three weeks, Secretary of State Herter decided that there was little real prospect of anything but a stalemate at Geneva. Looking ahead to the conference's end, Herter saw two possibilities, both unpleasant: a dangerous hotting-up of the Berlin crisis or a face-losing Western agreement to go to the summit despite President Eisenhower's public avowals that progress at Geneva...
...since the 19305. when Japan was the world's top swimming power, had Japanese coaches seen such a likely prospect. They corrected his body roll and built him into an iron-hard (5 ft. 6½ in., 150 lbs.) competitor...
...debate on whether a Roman Catholic should be President is rolling right along-as is Senator John F. Kennedy's campaign for the Democratic nomination. In the Methodist Church of Edgartown, Mass, last week, Bishop John Wesley Lord explained why the prospect of a Catholic President worries him. "While we hold to the principle of respect for every individual, whatever his race or religion, because of the unique claims that the Roman Catholic Church makes for itself, we have the right and duty to ask some questions of a presidential aspirant." He proceeded to ask five...
...peace and plenty at the American fair, convincingly repeated in the language of unashamed power by Nixon-was the essence of the new diplomacy. It riled some old-style folks. Huffed the London Daily Express: "A disgraceful performance . . . Back to the days of secret diplomacy is the best prospect for world peace...
...inviting is the prospect of a Europe economically united that still another nation was anxious to join the Outer Seven. But little Finland has to be mindful of what Big Neighbor Russia thinks. Predictably, Pravda grumbled last week that 'Finland should watch out for entangling political alliances. Wise in the ways of Soviet nuance and tone, the Finns decided that the Russians were only growling, not really mad. Accordingly > the Finns promised the Soviets to wait until the final wording of the agreement before joining, but meantime agreed to join the Outer Seven in drawing up the final draft...