Word: armorers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...candid talker that he is, he looks for signs of having said the wrong thing or having been misunderstood. He still broods "When will they start tearing me down?" Or "I wonder how many among my group really love me?" Says a former agent of his: "He has no armor. You can pierce him with a piece of Kleenex...
Girding itself in nuclear armor, the U.S. has devised such costly weapons as supersonic aircraft, attack and defense missiles, continent-wide radar-warning screens and atomic submarines. But it lags in a weapon that the Rockefeller Report last January warned would become "an increasingly important deterrent," i.e., fallout shelters in which the U.S. populace could wait out nuclear attacks. Last week the Administration took a halting step toward improving that deterrent. Appearing before the Senate Appropriations Committee, Defense and Civilian Mobilization Director Leo Hoegh outlined his program for public education on radiation, asked a modest...
...afternoon last week Guide John Thompson Reeves went into his usual spiel to 34 Americans about the pair of mounted Life Guards in scarlet tunic, white knee breeches and shining armor: "If a wasp crawled up the nostril of one of the guardsmen he would not permit himself to move his hand." Pointing to Trooper John Tedbury, Guide Reeves said that his ebony boots are patent leather and his breastplate stainless steel and untarnishable, so that the guards never have to do any polishing...
...Armor & Rebellion. Thus Dwight Eisenhower talked into the swirling storm that had hit harder at the structure of his Administration and his party than any other big blow of his political career. For the first time the storm's eye centered on the White House and on wiry (5 ft. 8 in., 135 Ibs.) Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams, 59, ex-Governor of New Hampshire, presidential chief of staff and next to Ike the most powerful man in the Administration. Adams, by presidential assignment the guardian of the integrity that Ike had always promised, the man of stern incorruptibility...
...grey dawn last week, having slithered over some 200 miles of mountain roads, an odd-looking apparatus fitted with armor plate and periscope came roaring out of a Macedonian pass and, before anyone could stop it, bored through the wooden frontier barrier. "I took my chances and steered with the help of the periscope," said Ivanov later. "The road was straight and level. The old goat would not give more than 30 miles an hour, but I took all 30. And we made...