Word: side
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...usual, when blustering his worst, as he did last week, Nikita Khrushchev also exhibited his peace-loving side. This time it was a 5,600-word Soviet plan for "complete and generaldisarmament," sent to all 82 members of the U.N. The new plan, Nikita let it be known, was one that he had intended to present in Paris had Dwight Eisenhower not "wrecked the summit." He would hardly have made much headway with it there...
With his customary cynicism, Nikita Khrushchev had long since concluded that disarmament is a field in which victory goes not to the side that acts but to the side that most loudly professes its willingness to act. But, as Russians so often have, he was grievously underestimating the intelligence and resolution of his opponents. Though Western officials politely agreed to study the plan, there was no sign that any of them-including subtle, skeptical Charles de Gaulle-failed to see through Nikita's transparent maneuver...
...conscientious objector, later spent three years in I ndia as a missionary and avid student of Gandhi's techniques of nonviolence ("Gandhi helped me to see the Christian life"). To earn a bachelor of divinity degree, he entered Vanderbilt in 1958, organized Negro students on the side...
...plans to make re-entry bodies maneuver so that their courses will be unpredictable and hard to intercept. To do this, the re-entering bodies must have controls and some sort of wings to give them lift, or to make them plunge steeply, or to let them dodge from side to side...
...West Side Story. Back in town with essentially the same cast, this milestone dance-musical of 1957 follows its serious theme-gang warfare in Manhattan slums -as movingly as ever...