Word: thaws
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Ever since its founding in 1948, the World Council of Churches has been cold-shouldered by the Russian Orthodox Church as well as the Vatican. At its annual meeting last week at the University of St. Andrews, the World Council's policymaking Central Committee happily noted signs of thaw on both fronts...
...much in the public eye until Admiral Richard E. Byrd's expeditions in the 1930s, Antarctica soon aroused that old flag-planting urge among several nations. The 1957-58 International Geophysical Year brought a temporary thaw in Antarctic rivalries. Scientists from twelve na tions-the U.S., Russia, Britain, France, Belgium, Norway, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Argentina, Chile-worked together in a broad and coordinated program of Antarctic research. In May 1958, President Eisenhower invited them all to Washington to discuss a continuing joint policy for Antarctica. This, he argued, "could have the additional advantage of preventing unnecessary...
...Central to what Khrushchev was trying to accomplish in the week's whirl of clenched fists and clownish grins, rattling rockets and fluttering peace doves, was his assault on President Eisenhower. In part, Khrushchev's attack was read as an outburst of pique and frustration. During the thaw Khrushchev staked his prestige on his mistaken notion that he could take Ike into camp, negotiate with him some kind of U.S. retreat from Berlin (Ike had once called the Berlin situation "abnormal"). The U.S.'s determination to stand firm in Berlin, made evident in tough speeches by Secretary...
Nevertheless, his stories were out of print until the thaw after Stalin's death...
...Communist lexicon, Nikita Khrushchev is clearly the apostle and chief promoter of peaceful coexistence and the calculated thaw. On the 90th anniversary of Lenin's birth last week, when "the Lenin of today" was off vacationing on the Black Sea coast, the official mouthpiece was Finnish-born Presidium Member Otto Kuusinen, 78, the hardbitten old Bolshevik who was one of Lenin's commissars in the revolution's early days. Kuusinen told an audience of some 20,000 at Moscow's Lenin Central Stadium that "war would be insane" with mankind's new destructive weapons...