Word: airing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...urgency of a convincing definition of the Army's mission in the crises that are bound to lie ahead. Gone is the day when the U.S. needs a massive Army to match the enemy's massive Army, for an all-out struggle would soon bring tactical nuclear air-power into play, ultimately the Strategic Air Command and carrier strike forces. But gone also is the day when airpower theorists can write off the Army as mere "trip wire" or "plate glass" to sound the general alarm for all-out nuclear...
...Soviet Union, and has been careful to express no official sympathy for the Tibetan rebels. But the most surprising change is a sudden shift in the long-embittered relations between India and Pakistan. Even though an Indian jet bomber was shot down last month when it violated Pakistani air space, both nations are doing fresh thinking about the future. Pakistan's President Ayub Khan publicly urged that they should "learn to live like good neighbors" without "frightening or fearing each other." In the light of Tibetan events, he said, Pakistan and India must join together for the defense...
...canceled a ball scheduled in Inonu's honor, and two theaters that had been hired by Republicans for mass meetings were padlocked by the building inspector as "unsafe." Just in case Inonu had not vet taken the hint, Turkey's Interior Minister, Namik Gedik, went on the air at week's end, warned that there would be "further trouble" if the old soldier persisted in his tour...
...more than 30 deaths (including at least one adult suicide) have been blamed on the bags. Most victims have been young children, with four (aged four months to two years) in Arizona's Phoenix area alone. Reason for the concentration there is the low humidity: dry air increases the plastic's tendency to develop a charge of static electricity and adhere to anything around. After the bag covers a child's mouth and nose, he soon becomes too faint to coordinate his actions and pull away the sticky folds. Vomiting usually follows. Cause of death is believed...
...does not take "a London particular" to send cough-racked Britons to their beds -or their graves. The tight little island's air is tightly packed with pollutant particles, boosting the bronchitis and chest-disease rate to the world's highest. Last week Dr. Horace Joules (rhymes with rules), of London's Central Middlesex Hospital, painted a Dickensian picture of what a medical nightmare the past winter had been in the city which some Englishmen still call "the Smoke...