Word: accessible
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Narcotics addiction is 100 times more common among physicians than the general population, reported Detroit's Dr. J. DeWitt Fox, after analyzing federal statistics. One doctor in every 100 is a present or possible future victim. Main reasons: emotional problems, pressure of work or pain, plus easy access to the drugs...
...make it universally popular with the many contractors over whom it sits in technical judgment. The arguments are long, the complaints bitter. R-W is criticized for being highhanded, for spurring contractors too hard. Another complaint is that R-W's role as technical boss gives it free access to electronic secrets of everyone in the program-secrets that may later have valuable commercial use. R-W vehemently denies that it plans to use its position to steal a march on the competition, points out that other companies benefit greatly from its technical help. Despite the complaints. General Schriever...
...Clinched with Saudi Arabia the final details of the Dhahran air-base agreement worked out by President Eisenhower and King Saud during the King's visit to Washington (TIME, Feb. 18). The Saudis extended U.S. access to the vital strategic base, 1,000 miles south of Russia's Baku oilfields, for another five years. In return, the U.S. will give the Saudis some $50 million worth of services in the period by helping improve Saudi Arabian civil-aviation facilities, setting up or extending present U.S. training programs for the Saudi army, air force and navy...
There still remains the question of Israel's right of access to the Suez Canal. Nasser, in a chat to visiting U.S. editors, said he would not let Israeli ships through. In Washington, President Eisenhower indicated that the U.S. had made no such binding commitment on Suez as on Aqaba, and that furthermore, Ben-Gurion. in his letter to Ike, had not even mentioned Suez. This brought Israel's Ambassador Abba Eban around to the U.S. State Department to say that his government attached great importance to the canal issue, and expected U.S. backing.* Through Cairo...
Debating for the negative will be Medford Evans, a member of the Atomic Energy Commission, which in 1954 denied Oppenheimer further access to atomic energy secrets, and Willmore Kendall, assistant professor of Political Science at Yale...