Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...technical studies on the feasibility of stopping nuclear tests. President Eisenhower sped off a "Dear Mr. Chairman" letter to the Kremlin's Khrushchev, proposed that delegations of Western and Communist scientists meet in Geneva next month to discuss ways and means of detecting nuclear explosions. The scientists should aim for an initial progress report in 30 days, a final report in 60 days, wrote Ike, and the U.S. and U.S.S.R. should keep the U.N. fully informed of progress. Then the President nominated three topflight U.S. scientists to represent the U.S. The three: Physicist Ernest 0. Lawrence, director...
...federal troops to enforce integration. ¶ The Senate passed by voice vote, and sent to the House, a bill requiring automobile dealers to display on new cars the manufacturer's suggested retail price, the cost of each accessory and a total delivery price. Bill's aim: to eliminate the price pack, a device used by some dealers to raise the total price on new cars to balance off generous trade-in allowances on old models...
...international Communist pattern was plain to see. The leaflet-spread slurs at the Vice President, e.g., "Nixon Dog!", the party-line taunts, e.g., "Insolent representative of monopolistic trusts," "What about the Negroes in the South?", and the phony causes, e.g., "Free Puerto Rico," *were everywhere the same. The aim: implanting throughout the world the propaganda theme of hatred for the U.S. in its own backyard...
...nine-man Kaiser clinic, the aim is to give patients "what every teen-ager wants from everybody-respect and honesty." The waiting room, filled with teenagers' fashion and hobby magazines, is designed to make patients feel they are "in the right place." Visits by parents are discouraged; the patient is on his own, alone with his own doctor...
...Bureau of Study Counsel will make 25 Tutors Awards available for undergraduates in foreign languages and sciences next fall. The awards are designed to insure an adequate and dependable staff to carry on the Bureau's tutoring program, and also aim to interest more bright students in teaching by giving them experience in the field...