Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under a bright sun that was AWOL during his visit last month, Dwight Eisenhower last week stepped from Columbine III at Augusta's Bush Field. "Boy," said he, "this is better weather." Budget problems pressing, his strenuous mission to eleven countries only three weeks away, the President was eager to relax. Sped to the Augusta National Golf Club, he swapped his brown business suit for slacks and a sports shirt, was on the practice tee within 15 minutes...
...West's warmest friend in North Africa, and Spain's Generalissimo Franco to his tightly scheduled, 20,000-mile grand tour (TIME, Nov. 16); the President will invite Bourguiba aboard the cruiser Des Moines for an afternoon's conversation in the Bay of Tunis, will visit Franco on an overnight stop in Madrid while flying home from Paris...
With supreme confidence, as if contrary views had been considered by him and then rejected, De Gaulle last week laid out his winter schedule. Nikita Khrushchev would arrive in Paris March 15 for a state visit expected to last as much as two weeks. After that, in April De Gaulle would accept the Queen's invitation to visit Britain, and perhaps follow it with a boat trip to the U.S. and Canada. Mid-May, therefore, might be appropriate for the summit. All this was a far cry from Eisenhower's original proposal for a December summit. But without...
...idea that everyone must rush to the summit lest Nikita Khrushchev grow impatient and the "momentum" of East-West efforts for peace be lost was less forceful when Khrushchev himself seems to be in no hurry for a summit. The French offered him two dates for his pre-summit visit to Paris-Feb. 20 or mid-March. Khrushchev chose the later date, blandly explaining from wintry Moscow that the weather in Paris was likely to be better then...
...wanted: 1) continuing Soviet proofs of good international intentions; 2) previous agreement among the Western powers "on the questions to be dealt with and the common position they will take on each item"; 3) "personal contact between Mr. Khrushchev and myself." Happily, added the general, Khrushchev has agreed to visit Paris in March. So after that, say in May, a summit meeting would be in order...