Word: arraying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since the Russians began their space shots, an insistent array of U.S. military pundits, politicos and editorialists have charged that the U.S. is lagging behind the Russians in the missile race, is heading toward a disastrous missile gap in the 1960s, and is foolishly placing a balanced budget above adequate military defenses. Last week, at long last, Defense Secretary Neil McElroy, backed by "the best intelligence there is," rose to the challenge. With General Nathan Twining, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, McElroy went over to the Capitol to set the facts before the Senate Armed Services Committee...
...automakers, the motorboat makers are shifting away from yesteryear's jukebox styling. The 1959 models have toned-down colors, trimmed-down fins, less chrome. There are also fewer extra-cost gadgets. Said President Sherwood Egbert of the Outboard Motor Manufacturers' Association: "Instead of bringing out a huge array of new accessories, we have settled down to making our product more reliable, cheaper to operate...
...Domains. Scurrying to make up for lost time after Sputnik I, the U.S. has put five satellites into orbit (Explorers I, III and IV, Vanguard, Atlas); fired two near-miss lunar probes (Pioneers I and III); started on an array of other satellite or space-probe projects; let development contracts with the Rocketdyne Division of North American Aviation Inc. for space-rocket engines with thrusts of 1,000,000 lbs. or more; pushed a man-in-space undertaking, Project Mercury, that is scheduled for announcement this month. But despite the flurry of projects, the U.S. has made disappointingly little progress...
...Europe and Latin America. Not until last spring, and after U.S. prompting, did the U.N. finally establish the E.G.A. headquarters in Ethiopia, oldest independent nation on the continent. Membership: six European nations, nine independent African countries, and associates from colonial and trust territories. In a continent with a bewildering array of problems and a disheartening lack of experience, the commission hopes to help raise living standards by pooling economic information and skill...
...array of troubles before De Gaulle is indeed sobering. The country is basically prosperous, but its economy is restrictive. Politically, the new Assembly, calling itself Gaullist, is considerably more rightist in outlook than the general himself. Above all, the four-year-old Algerian Moslem revolt continues to drain France of $2,400,000 a day, and prospects for a negotiated end to the fighting, once considered high, were badly dashed last October, when the rebels angrily considered De Gaulle's soldier-to-soldier, "flag-of-truce" offer a humiliating proposal...