Word: atomic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...order to keep the 1958 spending total from running past the new $72 billion estimate, the Administration is squeezing to hold defense spending down to $38 billion. And the high cost of technological complexity in the jet-missile-atom era makes that ceiling uncomfortably low. In the past few months. Defense Secretary Charles Erwin Wilson ordered uniformed-manpower cuts totaling 200,000 men (TIME, Sept. 30). And in the week when the Soviet Union launched history's first man-made earth satellite, the U.S. was nibbling again at its own defenses. Item: the Strategic Air Command announced that...
Ricardo Montalban, as Koli, fills the role, but with nothing special. He has one good song, a Calypso mockery of mankind called "Monkey in a Mango Tree." Josephine Premice, as the opportunistic second-to-most-eligible female around, is first rate, especially in "Leave the Atom Alone," an amusing try by the show's authors to be socially significant. Ossie Davis does well as her occasional beau, Erik Rhodes as the exaggerated British governor of the island, Augustine as a lovable urchin, and Adelaide Hall as a homey, cloud-reading sage...
...Goldwater served public notice that he "certainly will oppose" McKinney's appointment when it comes up for Senate confirmation. But Democrat McKinney can point to a detail that might soften Republican Goldwater's wrath: after the citizens' panel turned in its report on uses of the atom, McKinney handed back $17,000 of the $50,000 that Congress had appropriated for expenses...
...Inchcliffe Castle." With that alert from a famed but fictitious merchant vessel,* simulated hell broke loose in the North Atlantic. Out to punish the "aggressors," a six-nation Blue fleet totaling nearly 160 fighting ships began steaming toward Norway. In the Iceland-Faeroes gap, 36 Orange submarines, including the atom-powered 'Nautilus, lay in wait. The U.S. destroyer Charles R. Ware was "sunk"; a "torpedo" slowed down the carrier U.S.S. Intrepid, and H.M.S. Ark Royal had a hot time beating off the assaults of Britain-based Valiant jet bombers. But by early afternoon, Blue carrier planes got through...
...movies ("The Killer with a Soul . . . You'll love him . . . Bring the family"), the wide screen, blaring jazz bands, TV commercials. But before long, a little boy (played by Chaplin's son, Michael, 11) buttonholes the king, and in a semihysterical rage rants about witch-hunting, the atom bomb, freedom ("There's no freedom here . . . They don't give you a passport"). The Committee on Un-American Activities has named the boy's parents as Communists. They have left the party but refuse to finger their friends and are sentenced to two years in prison...