Word: acted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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High on the list of the U.S.'s Paris aims is a start toward the far-reaching decision to supply NATO partners with intermediate-range ballistic missiles as soon as the U.S. has any to deliver (TIME, Nov. 25). That enormous undertaking is complicated by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, which bars the U.S. from turning over nuclear arms to foreign nations in peacetime. At his press conference last week, Dulles confirmed that by present law the U.S. would have to keep nuclear warheads for NATO missiles under its own "technical custody." But the U.S. could deliver missiles...
...with the other allies before carrying out any major policy decision. Since this seemed to imply a veto power over any U.S. decision to retaliate instantly if attacked, Dulles turned it down, pointed out that the U.S. cannot unconditionally commit itself to advance consultation, thereby curbing presidential power to act quickly in a crisis...
Another objection was Dulles' stipulation that the U.S. (in view of the atom-denying McMahon Act) will keep the nuclear warheads "in the custody" of the U.S. Said the neutralist Le Monde, speaking for a considerable body of French opinion: "France cannot shelter on her soil arms of massive destruction which expose her to reprisals unless she is associated in the decision to use them...
...heap, the electronic computer also starts out on a problem using only two basic values-one for when the circuit is on, another for when it is off. But this primitive off-again-on-again arithmetic, combined with the ability to memorize numbers, to compare them and act on the comparison, goes at such fantastic speed and in such volume that the machine can solve the most complex problems in a matter of minutes or seconds...
...stranger jammed a .22 Colt automatic in Reddick's neck and pressed the trigger. The piece clicked harmlessly, and Reddick leaped behind a nearby fire truck. "Look, buddy," he shouted, "there's enough cops here to kill you before you can move. Why don't you act sensible?" Still clutching his camera, Reddick sweet-talked his way over to the gun slinger, grabbed his shooting hand as a cop leaped on the man from behind...