Word: atomic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...embraced." But Chou himself was forced to render tribute to Khrushchev for his "correct leadership" as a party theorist. About one new idea from the busy brain of Nikita Khrushchev Chou was significantly silent. In tossing out ideas for all kinds of Soviet-style disarmament plans, Khrushchev proposed an atom-free neutral zone in the Pacific, vaguely defined but seeming to include Red China, Japan, and the U.S. testing areas in the Marshalls. One obvious interpretation: Khrushchev too is not anxious to have his big and impetuous Chinese brothers admitted to the world's nuclear club...
...spacious marble building in New Delhi last week, earnest men from 53 nations quietly undertook a task of more potential importance to 20th century man than the cracking of the atom or the exploration of space. Their goal: to foster the rule of law throughout the world by denning the minimum legal safeguards that all men everywhere could reasonably demand of their governments...
...ATOM BLASTS FOR OIL are being seriously considered by U.S. Bureau of Mines figures nuclear blasts could free more than 1 trillion bbl. of oil locked in rocky shale formations. Opening shot is expected in Colorado...
Discussing European problems further, Finletter commented that the U.S. should "listen much more sympathetically than we have to proposals such as the Rapacki Plan." He supported the Polish program of setting up an "atom-weapon-free zone on either side of the dividing line in Europe," as this would not reduce Western military strength relative to the Soviets and would ease Russian worries about missile sites close to their territory...
...biggest stake in harnessing the atom for commercial use, simply because it is the biggest U.S. electrical firm and the world's biggest supplier of power equipment, concerned with power for everything from toasters to jet engines. Its stake has been defined in terms that every schoolboy can understand by G.E.'s chairman Ralph Jarron Cordiner, 58, a short (5 ft. 7½ in.), power-packed man with restless eyes that are always trained on the future, ever watchful for risk and opportunity. Says Cordiner: "The atom is the power of the future-and power is the business...