Word: attackers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Command's aircraft were grounded for lack of fuel during the last several weeks of fiscal 1957 (ending June 30). Jolting as it was, LeMay's statement checked out. For five weeks SAC had just enough gas to get off the ground in case of actual attack, almost none to spare for training or readiness flights, although it is basic SAC policy to keep part of its bombers in the air at all times in order to 1) reduce vulnerability to surprise attack, and 2) speed retaliation. Defense Department Comptroller Wilfred J. McNeil, sometime rear admiral, U.S.N.R., refused...
Beyond that. Teller raises serious doubts about the whole concept of inspection to enforce disarmament agreements. Pointing out that "the launching of a massive attack by intercontinental ballistic missiles requires very little visible preparation," he warns: "Modern war-making potential depends to an increasing extent on highly specialized weapons. Some of the most essential of these weapons can be hidden with relative ease. Nuclear explosives and long-range rockets are two outstanding examples. Thus surveillance becomes more and more difficult. In addition, scientific and technical developments have produced and will produce unexpected types of weapons. How shall one check whether...
...this juncture, Khrushchev went to the rostrum and ratified what his foreign minister had said ("I fully agree"). Conceding that the NATO communique statement that the West will never attack Russia unless attacked itself "is not badly put," he added a suggestion of his own: a summit meeting between the U.S. and Russia alone...
...William Simpsons who operated (from 1822 to 1937) an elegant pawnshop on New York's Lower East Side, blithe lender of money against such collateral as the Hope diamond, a Stradivarius, Titian paintings, 15th century manuscripts and pornographic watches, subject of lively reminiscences (Hockshop); of a heart attack; in Brownsville, Texas...
...champ, who revolutionized the game :by twice winning the U.S. Championship (1912, 1913) with his big serve, violent overhead smashes and net-rushing tactics (all previously unknown in big-time Eastern tennis), retired in 1919 after a decisive quarter-finals loss to Richard Norris Williams II; of a heart attack; in Hermosa Beach, Calif...