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Both predicted an inevitable victory of communism over capitalism and proclaimed a desire for world peace. Khrushchev proposed a world summit conference to rule out the possibility of another...
...meeting between the President and the Prime Minister in Washington last week may well prove to be one of the most historic events in the post-War history of the Western alliance. The summit meeting and the terse communiques that emerged from it take on their potential significance because the agreements reached--on the substantive issues of pooling scientific research and strengthening NATO's policy making functions--could represent a total revision in Western patterns of response to Soviet challenges...
Three hours after Dwight Eisenhower welcomed Britain's Elizabeth II to the White House, London and Washington simultaneously announced another British visit: Prime Minister Harold Macmillan would land in Washington this week for summit talks with the President about the gravity of Soviet missile diplomacy and Soviet penetration in the Middle East. It was the first emergency-induced U.S. trip for a British Prime Minister since Clement Attlee came during the Korean crisis...
...sooner had the announcement of the Macmillan trip been made than Khrushchev demanded that he be included in a new summit meeting. Khrushchev's other-side-of-the-mouth belligerence had already ruled out any such possibility. But he had nonetheless done the free world a favor. By creating an emergency over Sputnik and the Middle East, he had newly welded the Atlantic alliance, perilously creaky since Suez, and inspired its members to get on with their business of collaboration...
...those years, mountaineers mastered only four routes to the peak itself. Attempted but never conquered was a possible fifth way, the Grand Pilastre, a 5,000-ft. perpendicular wall of gripless, smooth rock and slithery green ice that looms over empty space toward the summit. Last week the Grand Pilastre was finally conquered in a fantastic three-day climb by Italy's Walter Bonatti, 27, and Toni Gobbi, 43. Awed alpinists compared it to the first four-minute mile...