Word: alonge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wilson set up a nicely balanced committee made up of Air Force Major General Ben Schriever, Army Major General John Medaris and Wilson's special missiles assistant, William Holaday. The problem was urgent. With IRBM production soon to be vital for NATO defense, and with Russia apparently well along in IRBM development, the President and the National Security Council had tagged the IRBM program with top priority. But the problem was also agonizingly tough. The Thor-Jupiter committee started meditating last August, but one of the first decisions announced by Defense Secretary Neil McElroy when he took over from...
...from submarines or surface ships. Weighing only one-third as much as Thor or Jupiter, and burning easier-to-handle solid fuel instead of liquid, the Navy's Polaris promises to be a more efficient all-round IRBM than either of its rivals. If it were as far along in development as Thor and Jupiter, a case could be argued for making it the nation's production-line IRBM...
Long inured to the ceremonial trappings, lofty pageantry and storybook unreality of Hollywood's baubles, the U.S. last week got a rare chance to show that it knows the genuine article when it comes along. It came−a sweeping constellation of exalted royalty, heralded by the solemn magnificence of equerries, secretaries, aides and ambassadors−and the U.S. found that Britain's Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, not symbols alone, but flesh-and-blood people, respond with the same human warmth and simple good will that Americans hold out to them...
...echoes of a 21-gun salute and brass-band strains of the British and U.S. national anthems, the two heads of state exchanged official greetings and began the great procession to the White House. All along the four-mile route, from the airport to the White House, a million celebrity-jaded Washingtonians cheered Ike and his guests as they rolled slowly in the President's bubble-topped Lincoln. As the Eisenhower grandchildren flattened their noses against the upstairs windowpanes, Mamie Eisenhower (who changed her dress at the very last minute from peony red to olive green) stepped...
Sirens howling, a motorcycle escort whisked President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines' Lincoln limousine through the gates of Mexico City's presidential residence, Los Pifios, one day last week. With Mexico's Federal District Governor Ernesto P. Uruchurtu tagging along, Ruiz Cortines was out to hang up an unofficial speed record for public-works dedications...