Word: anti
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Surrender Is Better. As is customary before U.S. nuclear tests but rarely before U.S.S.R. nuclear tests, various mutations of the anti-nuclear movement were burgeoning worldwide. In West Germany the organization was the Fight Against Atomic Death. In Japan it was the Council Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs. In London the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament mustered up a 50-mile protest march to Britain's atomic-weapons research center at Aldermaston. The marchers' inspiration, dinned in mass meetings and magazine articles, was the view of Philosopher Bertrand Russell and Writer Philip Toynbee, son of the famed historian, that...
...first test-firing and test-explosion of a nuclear-tipped ballistic missile at loo-mile-plus altitude to determine how a nuclear fireball will act in space's near-vacuum, an experiment preliminary to the building of an anti-missile missile. (The Russians test-exploded their first atomic missile, U.S. intelligence believes, at 60-mile altitude above Siberia last winter...
...were sarcastic. Sneered a leading segregationist: "A beautiful thought of everybody loving everybody else." Negro leaders welcomed the plan as evidence that contact has been re-established between whites and Negroes, but said they were opposed in principle. The Arkansas Gazette, which has been threatened and boycotted for its anti-Faubus stand, praised the plan in a Page One editorial as an "eloquent . . . appeal for a return to reason and good will. Mr. Thomas recognizes that any settlement must be in accordance with the law-or, more precisely, within the broad tenets of an interpretation of the U.S. Constitution with...
...University of Pennsylvania from 1948 to 1952) returned home, ignored taunts of "carpetbagger," solicited endorsement as the party's candidate for governor. He was rebuffed by the unanimous decision of 67 Republican county chairmen. Nevertheless, he filed. Then he set out like underdog to sniff out anti-organization Republican little wheels, to capitalize on his name and fame by charming the ladies' clubs and the luncheon circuit. Touring solemnly from town to town in his green Edsel sedan, Stassen, 51, made it evident that he had lost little of the precinct prowess that once (1938) elected him governor...
Things began, dashingly enough, with a deal signed with Communist Czechoslovakia, Poland and Yugoslavia for small arms, jet fighters and bombers. In Djakarta. Communist and left-wing newspapers interrupted their anti-American, anti-SEATO tirades long enough to cheer wildly President Sukarno's new link with the Reds. Bands of young toughs smeared anti-U.S. slogans on the walls of the American embassy in Djakarta; Red-run delegations streamed up the embassy steps to present resolutions telling the U.S. to keep its hands off Indonesia...