Word: setting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...mind were the plans for yet another campaign of Kennedy specialists: a road show by a team of political and voting experts that will discuss local and regional problems with political leaders and, hopefully, find solutions. A dozen meetings have been arranged, with forays into Philadelphia, Boston and Chicago set for this week. Heading the team: Bobby Kennedy...
...Gaulle frankly hopes to establish a European community that could speak to the U.S. and Great Britain on equal terms. Adenauer recognizes that a purely European force can never amount to anything without U.S. support, wants no suggestion that any new European community would in any sense challenge or set itself at odds with the U.S. In Adenauer's eyes, the support of the U.S. is more important than any question of European prestige...
LONDON and Paris newspaper readers have been startled in recent weeks by two well-circulated pictures that seemed to symbolize the terrors of the cold war. Hanging from the neck of a dapper U.S.A.F. major was a set of keys. Next to him was a picture of the lock they fit on the control board of a Thor missile emplacement. The starkly simple marking on the switch: War and Peace...
...most in position. But they cannot be fired by someone pushing a button in a panic. Under the terms of a 1958 agreement, the British man the missiles while the U.S. has control of the warheads. The keys symbolize and make concrete that joint control. Actually, there are two sets of keys, one held by a U.S. officer, another by an R.A.F. officer. There are three keys in each set, one for each of the three missiles in each squadron. The launching process cannot begin until the R.A.F. officer inserts his key into the slot in the control board marked...
...many women find devastating, Che guides Cuba with icy calculation, vast competence, high intelligence and a perceptive sense of humor. Despite the fact that Fidel Castro has had him declared a "native-born Cuban," Che knows that Cubans still regard him as a foreigner, and has so far realistically set the limit of his personal ambition accordingly. Even his name (pronounced Chay) comes from the Argentine equivalent...