Word: showings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with Panama, show the world the truly great meaning of liberty and justice by gracefully, stalwartly allowing the Panamanian flag to be raised in the Canal Zone, with all the dignity and solemnity a flag is worthy of; for is there a governmental treaty that can legally bestow upon a foreign government what rightfully belongs to the people-sovereignty...
Khrushchev's space challenge was underrated from the beginning by the U.S.?and it still is. But the very show of technical prowess helped prove how the West's pundits had underrated the appeal of independence and liberty in the so-called battle for men's minds. To millions of the world's uncommitted peoples, Communism's ability to master space was less impressive than its inability to master its own nature?and the symbol of Communism in 1959 was not that of Red rockets reaching for stars, but of Red China reaching brutally into Tibet and India...
...foreign ministers' conference ended in failure. Recalls a top State Department official: "The President was very firmly committed not to go to a summit meeting as long as he was forced to go under threat, or as long as there was no prospect that a summit meeting could show some results. He thought it over?and he decided to take the initiative...