Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week they were busy briefing their delegations, battening down their philosophies, packing planeloads of equipment for the Parley at the Summit...
...first and second floors of the 20-year-old Palais des Nations to make way for the carpenters of the Big Four. Technicians uncoiled miles of signal wire, installed cable heads and rigged the automatic elevators so that no unauthorized person could step off at the Parley at the Summit...
Because the cagey Europeans had got first attention at the best hotels and villas, the U.S. was hard-pressed to find quarters for its delegation. Not until the middle of last week did President Eisenhower have a place to lay his head on the summit. Then Mme. André Firmenich, Scottish wife of a Swiss millionaire perfume-maker, consented to rent her 15 room Chateau du Creux de Genthod because "we could hardly refuse to offer it to the President...
...Impending Collapse. As they made their preparations, the statesmen publicly pondered what they would talk about on the summit, and why they were going...
...Equal to equal," was the way Russia's Boss Khrushchev described the climate of the summit. "We are not going to Geneva with broken legs" (see FOREIGN NEWS). At his weekly press conference, President Eisenhower responded: "So far as I know there is no individual in the Government that has ever said that the Russians . . . are coming to any conference weak. Of course we recognize their great military strength...