Word: summits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...constitution and frump Parliament. The de-putsch decree -designed to juice up Rainier's popular support and democratic image-was proclaimed on the eve of a showdown with Monaco's protecting power, France, over the principality's tax-free status. Though negotiations would commence below the summit, His Most Serene Highness, backed up by his fully mobilized 70-man palace guard, was pressing for a "man-to-man" confrontation with President Charles de Gaulle. Burdened with such cares, the divinely appointed sovereign was for the first time looking forward to Princess Grace's Hollywood comeback...
...Succeed in Business Without Really Trying taps out the Robert Morse code of officemanship, a gleefully self-appreciative rush to the corporate summit...
...ponder his credentials. A skilled diplomat and a top Soviet expert on the U.S., Dobrynin served at the Soviet embassy in Washington from 1952 to 1955. Later, at the U.N., he was Dag Hammarskjold's Under Secretary for Political and Security Council Affairs. He attended the Geneva summit conference in 1955 and the Kennedy-Khrushchev meeting at Vienna...
...Succeed in Business Without Really Trying taps out the Robert Morse code of officemanship. a gleefully self-appreciative rush to the corporate summit...
...South Viet Nam, and is pouring money and manpower into that nation. He is worried about Berlin, but realizes that the troublemaking initiative there is held by the Communists, and he is determined that the West must maintain its basic rights. He is unwilling to go to the Summit just for propaganda purposes or to size up Nikita Khrushchev ("He was pretty well cased at Vienna"); but he is willing to talk to Khrushchev if the cold war seems on the brink of nuclear conflict or if there seems a substantive chance for progress in easing some basic issues...