Word: summits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soon give the same message to Khrushchev personally. West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt, on his way to talks with President Kennedy, claimed to have "private information" that Khrushchev will visit the United Nations General Assembly next month and take the opportunity to seek a summit session with the President...
...slope with heavy equipment. Some of them fell into deep crevasses along the way, seriously injured. By this time both Germans had fallen to their deaths; Corti and Longhi were stranded on different ledges on the wall. Securing a winch to the ice on the razor-thin summit, the rescuers lowered a man on cable down the north wall. After three agonizing hours, he managed to bring back Corti. But storms kept rescuers from reaching Longhi. When the observers below last saw him alive through the clouds, he was "clearly visible in his fire-engine red tricot, his face turned...
...pilloried in the press and charged with deserting Longhi to save himself. When he was finally vindicated, he swore that he would attempt the mountain once again. "I dream about it all the time, that evil wall," he told Olsen, "I dream that I am on the summit and I have climbed the wall, and I am at peace...
...mark of the session is whether Nikita Khrushchev himself will show up in Manhattan. Western diplomats anticipate that Khrushchev will wait until after the U.S. elections in November, then come to the U.N. to dramatize his maneuvers for a separate peace with East Germany and to press for a summit meeting with President Kennedy...
...water to an island several miles from shore, a cold rock whelmed in the cold waters of Japan's Inland Sea. There they take up their pails again and, sweating fiercely as the bleak dawn breaks, struggle up an almost perpendicular path to a small plateau near the summit of the island...