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...states of mind and health are fitful, and that his bad periods border on ineffectiveness. He wants to retire soon, but his obsession is to do it as the Great Peacemaker. For long, he dreamed of a dramatic personal meeting with Stalin or Malenkov, a "parley at the summit." Now, Churchill has settled his hopes on a spectacular Asian compromise as a suitable valedictory gesture...
...Benedict was the spiritual founder of all monasteries. On the summit of Italy's Monte Cassino, 14 centuries ago, where pagans had raised a shrine to Apollo. Benedict gathered around him a group of fellow Roman Catholics to withdraw from the world and yet be a part of it. He wrote them a rule of useful work and communal worship and solitary contemplation that has been a model of monastic discipline everywhere and ever since...
Labor's request for a Big Three meeting was all right, he said, but only on the condition that "immediate" does not imply "action at an unsuitable time." But this time he retreated from his own earlier (May 1953) plea for a "parley at the summit." "It seems to me," he said, "with the Geneva Conference imminent . . . you could hardly pick a more illchosen moment ... for a meeting of heads of states. We must certainly see what happens there before attempting what is, after all, a very unusual reserve procedure...
...take over as the Queen's first minister. His bout with the Russians at Berlin whetted his zest, and he came home with a tougher view about dealing with the Kremlin than that suggested by Sir Winston's still-evident yearning for a sweeping parley at the summit...
Busy Week. In Summit, Ky., Harold Murphy decided he needed a rest after a week in which 1) he lost his job, 2) his house burned down, 3) his car stalled at a railroad crossing and was smashed by a train, 4) his seven children were put to bed with chicken...