Word: setting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Near panic set in among the Communist delegates. Rumania's Deputy Foreign Minister Eduard Mezincescu popped up on a point of order, and Khrushchev took off his shoe, waved it and pounded it. Then, apparently dissatisfied with Mezincescu's protest, Nikita Khrushchev strode briskly down the aisle to pour vituperation on Sumulong...
Nigeria, Ghana and Guinea were easy to set free: they were almost all black. The first big bastion of white strength to meet the full onslaught of Africa's wind of change was Britain's sprawling Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, a seven-year-old amalgam that the more populous blacks disliked from the start...
...went before the United Na tions last week to set the record straight on Fidel Castro's "malicious innuendoes and distortions of history" in his 4½-hour harangue before the world body last month. In a 10,000-word paper, each of Castro's 19 major complaints was thoroughly answered. To Castro's charge that the capitalist U.S. "cannot propose a plan for public investment," the U.S. replied that it "contributes more to economic development of other countries than any other government in the world . . ." To his complaint that the U.S. shelters war criminals, it answered...
...ties, some of which were rudely severed by the Kefauver crime committee in the 1951 hearings that propelled some of his old City Hall cronies to jail for long terms. Ex-Expatriate O'Dwyer remains a partner in a U.S.-Mexican law firm, hopes to set up a public-relations outfit and plunge into some U.S.-Latin American business ventures...
...least of the linguistic assets that Jack Kennedy has going for him is Polish-born Prince Radziwill, husband of Jacqueline Kennedy's chic younger sister Lee, 27. In London last week, multilingual Princess Radziwill was getting set to join the prince in the U.S. and help in the campaign. The prince was already busy stumping in Polish hustings about the U.S. "He enjoys it very much," the princess told British newsmen. "And it is quite all right for him to campaign, although he is a British citizen." She had no comment on a whimsical report that if Brother...