Word: setting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...nosed over toward the southeast, curved down the length of the Atlantic and navigated 9,000 miles before its nose cone splashed hard by its chosen target just south of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. In exactly 52½ minutes last week, the 130-ton, 75-ft. Atlas rocket set a new U.S. missile record and beat the Russians' best distance mark by more than 1,000 miles...
...alone. Just think -what presumption! He now says they will not overfly. What magnanimity! This is to be decided by us and very definitely. We shall shoot those planes down; we shall deal shattering blows at the bases whence they come and at those who set up those bases...
Change of Mood. But when his white Ilyushin 18 turboprop set down in East Berlin, Khrushchev emerged in a new character-sober, sedate, mantled in almost Roman dignity. East Germany's Red Boss Walter Ulbricht greeted him nervously; he had first learned Nikita was coming only when Khrushchev casually remarked to newsmen in Paris that he "might" stop off on his way home. Khrushchev gave one glowering glance at a stiffly goose-stepping German Communist honor guard, then stepped to the microphones, fished in his pockets for a prepared statement, and read it in a flat monotone voice...
...set speech at East Berlin's Seelenbinder Hall, Nikita Khrushchev had a handpicked, wildly cheering audience of 8,000 Communists. Standing beneath a banner reading END THE PROVOCATIONS OF EISENHOWER AND ADENAUER, Nikita cried, "There was perfidy on the part of the American President. I repeat the word perfidy-there is no other word for it." Then he stood by, frowning, while an interpreter read the remainder in German. A strange note of resignation ran through it. His new theme: wait, and take it easy. He complained darkly about U.S. militarists, but added, "We will wait for negotiations...
...Affair, by C. P. Snow. The eighth novel in the author's projected eleven-volume cycle on Britain's New Men uses a scientific scandal to set off a typically reflective, genteel - and slow-moving - discussion of one of the dilemmas of power: how to judge not, yet still do justice...