summit

In international diplomacy, a personal meeting between heads of state to settle international crises and other matters of general concern. ‘Summit’ was first used in this sense by Winston Churchill in 1950, although it could be applied to the meetings between himself, Roosevelt, and Stalin at Tehran and Yalta during World War II. During the Cold War, the term ‘superpower summit’ was applied to meetings between the Soviet Union's Communist Party leader and the US president.

Summit

Community in northeastern Illinois, immediately adjacent to southwestern Chicago and 16 km/10 mi southwest of the Loop (central business district); population (1990) 10,000. Mainly a residential suburb, it also has one of the largest corn product plants in the world in which Argo manufactures cornflour and many other items.

It is located on (and named after) the ridge between the watersheds of the Mississippi and the Great Lakes. The portage here was long used by migrating American Indians and, later, fur traders; before the advent of railway and canal systems, it played a crucial role in the early growth of Chicago.

Summit

City in northeastern New Jersey, 16 km/10 mi west of Newark; population (1990) 19,800. It is an affluent suburb, with elegant homes and condominiums, and offices of pharmaceutical and financial companies.

History Part of the Elizabethtown area purchased from the Delaware in 1664, it was settled about 1720. Situated on First Watchung Mountain, it served as an important lookout during the American Revolution. The community grew with the arrival of the railway in 1837, and Summit was separated from Springfield and New Providence in 1869.